This accessible book presents a new theory of biological functions and connects it to contemporary problems in philosophy and science.

The biological functions debate is a perennial topic in the philosophy of science. In the first full-length account of the nature and importance of biological f

Concepts of Biology is designed for the single-semester introduction to biology course for non-science majors, which for many students is their only college-lev

Teleosemantics seeks to explain meaning and other intentional phenomena in terms of their function in the life of the species. This volume of new essays from an

This book is a critical survey of and guidebook to the literature on biological functions. It ties in with current debates and developments, and at the same tim