Overview
The notions of purpose, goal, end and function are used (and abused) in descriptions of a very wide range of human, animal and machine behaviour. Andrew Woodfield provides here a unified account of such teleological descriptions and explanations, their varieties, their logical structure and their proper uses. He concentrates his argument on the concepts of 'goal-directed behaviour' and 'natural function', and combines original philosophical criticism with a meticulous, detailed survey of the main competing theories in this diffuse and difficult field.
- | Author: Andrew Woodfield
- | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- | Publication Date: May 20, 2010
- | Number of Pages: 244 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0521143756
- | ISBN-13: 9780521143752
