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By Valerie Gray Hardcastle
A good deal of curiosity and pleasure encompass the interface among the philosophy of biology and the philosophy of psychology, but the world is neither good outlined nor good represented in mainstream philosophical guides. This e-book could be the 1st to open a discussion among the 2 disciplines. Its objective is to expand the conventional material of the philosophy of biology whereas informing the philosophy of psychology of correct organic constraints and insights.The booklet is equipped round six subject matters: capabilities and teleology, evolutionary psychology, innateness, philosophy of brain, philosophy of technological know-how, and parallels among philosophy of biology and philosophy of brain. all through, one unearths overlapping parts of research, higher philosophical implications, or even better conceptual ties. Woven via those connections are shared matters concerning the prestige of semantics, clinical legislation, evolution and variation, and cognition in general.
Contributors: André Ariew, Mark A. Bedau, David J. Buller, Paul Sheldon Davies, Stephen M. Downes, Charbel Niño El-Hani, Owen Flanagan, Peter Godfrey-Smith, Todd Grantham, Valerie grey Hardcastle, Gary Hatfield, Daniel W. McShea, Karen Neander, Shaun Nichols, Antonio Marcos Pereira, Tom Polger, Lawrence A. Shapiro, Kim Sterelny, Robert A. Wilson, William C. Wimsatt.
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Still, this approach does allow the same trait to have different functions, depending upon one's perspective. We can think of birth, for example, as a flooding of hormones, the second stage of labor, a period of confinement, the fittest surviving, the Page 36 beginning of life, the emergence of an identity, the creation of a family, the transfer of power, an alteration in social structure, the saving of an inheritance, the healing of wounds, or the end of an era. It is not clear to me that this is a functional description at all, at least in the sense most scientists use the term.
I am grateful to Adam Goldstein for discussion on this point. The argument needs to be further spelled out. Why are representational functions higher than, say, reproductive functions? It seems plausible that it would often be some further component of the cognitive system, but Millikan has suggested (in conversation) that the consuming system, in the case of a frog detecting a fly, could be the frog's digestive system, or even the whole frog after its catching of the fly. Evolution occurs just in case a change in the proportion of genes occurs, or more weakly, perhaps, if a change in the proportion of genotypes occurs.
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