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 …

“This is an important book and likely the most thoughtful of the year in the social sciences...
Highly recommended, it is likely to prove one of the most thought-provoking books of the …

" Our thoughts are meaningful. We think about things in the outside world; how can that be
so? This is one of the deepest questions in contemporary philosophy. Ever since …

An extended argument that cognitive phenomena—perceiving, imagining, remembering—
can be best explained in terms of an interface between contentless and content-involving …

This paper sets out a view about the explanatory role of representational content and
advocates one approach to naturalising content–to giving a naturalistic account of what …

Originally published 1992 What's Wrong With Ethnography? provides a fresh look at the
rationale for and distinctiveness of ethnographic research in sociology, education and …

Brian Skyrms presents a fascinating exploration of how fundamental signals are to our
world. He uses a variety of tools—theories of signaling games, information, evolution, and …

The concept of the saturated self (Gergen 2001 [1991]) refers to the dramatic expansion in
the range of relations (real, virtual, and imagined) in which the individual is increasingly …

Setting a new agenda for the philosophy of science and for other" science studies"
disciplines, in this book the well-known philosopher Philip Kitcher offers an innovative and …

In the past century, nearly all of the biological sciences have been directly affected by
discoveries and developments in genetics, a fast-evolving subject with important theoretical …