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Function and Teleology
This is a short overview of the biological functions debate in philosophy. While it was fairly comprehensive when it was written, my short book A Critical Overview of Biological Functions has largely supplanted it as a definitive and up-to-date overview of the debate, both because the book takes into account new developments since then, and because the length of the book allowed me to go into substantially more detail about existing views.
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