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  1. Biological Theory
  2. Biological Theory : Volume 12
  3. Biological Theory : Volume 12, Issue 2, June 2017
  4. A Unifying Theory of Biological Function
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A Unifying Theory of Biological Function

Content Provider Springer Nature Link
Author Hateren, J. H.
Copyright Year 2017
Abstract A new theory that naturalizes biological function is explained and compared with earlier etiological and causal role theories. Etiological (or selected effects) theories explain functions from how they are caused over their evolutionary history. Causal role theories analyze how functional mechanisms serve the current capacities of their containing system. The new proposal unifies the key notions of both kinds of theories, but goes beyond them by explaining how functions in an organism can exist as factors with autonomous causal efficacy. The goal-directedness and normativity of functions exist in this strict sense as well. The theory depends on an internal physiological or neural process that mimics an organism’s fitness, and modulates the organism’s variability accordingly. The structure of the internal process can be subdivided into subprocesses that monitor specific functions in an organism. The theory matches well with each intuition on a previously published list of intuited ideas about biological functions, including intuitions that have posed difficulties for other theories.
Starting Page 112
Ending Page 126
Page Count 15
File Format PDF
ISSN 15555542
Journal Biological Theory
Volume Number 12
Issue Number 2
e-ISSN 15555550
Language English
Publisher Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date 2017-03-08
Publisher Place Dordrecht
Access Restriction One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword Philosophy of Biology Function Agency Evolution Goal-directedness Evolutionary Biology Cognitive Psychology Normativity
Content Type Text
Resource Type Article
Subject Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics History and Philosophy of Science
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