In What's the Use? Sara Ahmed continues the work she began in The Promise of Happiness
and Willful Subjects by taking up a single word—in this case, use—and following it around …

Scholastic Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction provides an overview of Scholastic
approaches to causation, substance, essence, modality, identity, persistence, teleology, and …

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 …

Actuality and potentiality, substantial form and prime matter, efficient causality and teleology
are among the fundamental concepts of Aristotelian philosophy of nature. Aristotle's …

This book focuses on material culture as a subject of philosophical inquiry and promotes the
philosophical study of material culture by articulating some of the central and difficult issues …

This paper reports data from a study aiming to explore secondary students' preconceptions
and explanations about evolutionary processes. Students may exhibit both alternative and …

Many objects in the world have functions. Typewriters are for typing. Can-openers are for
opening cans. Lawnmowers are for cutting grass. That is what these things are for. Every …

Welche Rolle spielen die Begriffe des Zwecks und der Funktion für die Biologie und die
Bestimmung ihres Grundbegriffs, des Organismus? Offensichtlich sind diese Begriffe fest in …

The controversy over Intelligent Design (ID) has now continued for over two decades, with
no signs of ending. For its defenders, ID is revolutionary new science, and its opposition is …

Teleology has a long history. Religious doctrines often give teleology a central role—the
gods infuse Nature with their own goals and purposes, and rains and droughts and …