On nature and normativity: Normativity, teleology, and mechanism in biological explanation

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C :Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 88-91

  Moss, Lenny ^a   Nicholson, Daniel J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTION AND COGNITION RESEARCH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Intrinsic purposiveness; Mechanism; Normativity; Organism; Teleology

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; NATURAL SCIENCE; PHILOSOPHY;

BIOLOGY; HUMANS; NATURE; PHILOSOPHY;

EID: 84856677626     PISSN: 13698486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsc.2011.05.007     Document Type: Editorial

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