In recent years, biologists have increasingly been asking whether the ability to evolve—the
evolvability—of biological systems, itself evolves, and whether this phenomenon is the result …

This paper reviews the debate on the notion of biological function and on functional
explanation as this takes place in philosophy. It describes the different perspectives, issues …

An introduction to the field of applied ontology with examples derived particularly from
biomedicine, covering theoretical components, design practices, and practical applications …

Music comprises a diverse category of cognitive phenomena that likely represent both the
effects of psychological adaptations that are specific to music (eg, rhythmic entrainment) and …

We live in a world of crowds and corporations, artworks and artifacts, legislatures and
languages, money and markets. These are all social objects-they are made, at least in part …

Any serious student attempting to better understand the nature, methods, and justification of
science will value Alex Rosenberg and Lee McIntyre's updated and substantially revised …

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A defense of the computational explanation of cognition that relies on mechanistic
philosophy of science and advocates for explanatory pluralism. In this book, Marcin …

Physiotherapy is arriving at a critical point in its history. Since World War I, physiotherapy
has been one of the largest allied health professions and the established provider of …

If philosophy is the attempt “to understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the
term hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term”, as Sellars (1962) put it …