Teleology

Walsh, D. M. (2008). Teleology. The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Biology.

Type

Book chapter

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

2008

Link

https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195182057.003.0006matched

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philosophy

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• Teleology
  • (4) The explanatory move treating purpose as causally relevant to current state — not merely describing pattern but invoking purpose as part of the causal story.

    This sourceTeleological notions in biology. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Surveys the four-element structure of teleological claims (system, function, mechanism, explanatory move) and post-Darwinian naturalizations.

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