The fine-grained metaphysics of artifactual and biological functional kinds

Synthese

Volumn 169, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 125-143

  Carrara, Massimiliano ^a   Vermaas, Pieter E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Artifact functions; Artifacts; Biological functions; Biological organs; David Wiggins; Functional kinds; Metaphysics; Metaphysics of artifacts; Metaphysics of biology; Ontological realism

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349171550     PISSN: 00397857     EISSN: 15730964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-008-9339-1     Document Type: Article

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