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An Aristotelian Account of Life - Cameron (Correct)
....analyses get more complex) is a marble sitting in the bottom of a bowl the marble s goal state is not being in the bottom of the bowl despite the fact that the bowl marble system maintains that state throughout significant environmental perturbations. See chapter five and Mark Bedau s essays (1992a; 1992b) for the arguments. 50 account which allows designed satellites and robots as organisms or living is an obvious failure these examples constitute counterexamples to L1. Taylor s solution to the problem is to distinguish between original and derived ends. He says, The goal oriented operations of machines are not ....
Bedau, M. 1992b. Where's the Good in Teleology? Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 52:781-805.
An Ontology for Aristotelian Teleology. - Cameron (Correct)
....of the account offered in this chapter, then, will depend upon my having surveyed the best and strongest objections to teleology and on my ability to mount an adequate defense against the objections. Let us take the objections in turn. 4 See Bedau (1992b, 283) 5 See Bedau (1992b, 283) 6 See Bedau (1992b, 283) Mayr (1988, 40), Nissen (1997, vii, 128, 162) and Woodfield (1976, 3) 7 See Buller (1999, 6) Jacobs(1986, 390) Mayr(1988, 40) Nissen(1997, vii, 128, 162) and Woodfield(1976, 3) 8 See Buller (1999, 6) Jacobs(1986, 392) Mayr (1988, 40) Nissen (1997, 96, 105, 134) and Woodfield (1976, 34) 9 See ....
.... Nissen (1997, vii, 128, 162) and Woodfield (1976, 3) 7 See Buller (1999, 6) Jacobs(1986, 390) Mayr(1988, 40) Nissen(1997, vii, 128, 162) and Woodfield(1976, 3) 8 See Buller (1999, 6) Jacobs(1986, 392) Mayr (1988, 40) Nissen (1997, 96, 105, 134) and Woodfield (1976, 34) 9 See Bedau (1992b, 283) Mayr (1988, 40). 10 See Woodfield (1976, 8 9) 11 See Woodfield (1976, 7) 12 See Allen and Bekoff (1995, 244; 1995, 9) 13 See Mayr (1988, 40) 4 6.1.1. Guilt by association. The problems under (O1) have a common form: Aristotelian teleology is claimed to be bound inextricably to unacceptable ....
Bedau, M. 1992b. Where's the Good in Teleology? Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 52:781-805.
Sui Generis - Real Causal Factor Self-citation (Bedau) (Correct)
.... to the persistence of functional attribution: despite hundreds of years of philosophical antagonism to teleology, biological science has 2 For accounts of the difficulties involved in this seemingly straightforward idea, see Bigelow and Pargetter (1987, 101 2) Griffiths (1993, 7 8) 3 See Bedau (1990) for a convincing case against mentalism in teleology. See Nissen (1997) for a defense. 4 made little effort to remove teleological language from its explanations and reflective biologists are positively resistant to the idea that teleology should be eliminated from their field. 5 Finally, it ....
....onto the world, but is a real feature of the world that we discover through investigation. Condition one: the realist stance. It is a condition of adequacy on an account of biological functions that the account respect the apparent commitment in common sense and science s to teleology as 4 See Bedau (1990): even if a theory of teleology does not take natural teleology at face value, it should provide some sort of explanation of why organic nature appears teleological (66) 5 David Buller says, In spite of the difficulties associated with teleology, however, biologists continued to use the ....
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Bedau, M. 1992c. Where's the Good in Teleology? Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 52:781-805.
Supple Laws in Psychology and Biology - Bedau Self-citation (Bedau) (Correct)
....contexts and rule proving exceptions arise in contexts in which some other means better achieves the same purpose. The teleology in supple laws can be mental but it can also be merely biological, as examples below show. Further details of my preferred understanding of teleology are developed in Bedau 1990, 1991, 1992a, 1992b, 1993, Bedau Packard 1992. Hofstadter (1985) describes mental regularities as fluid and Horgan and Tienson (1990) talk of soft laws of intentional psychology. But the teleology in supple laws makes them not just fluid or soft but aptly so. The fluidity or softness ....
Bedau, M. A. 1992a. Where's the good in teleology? Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 52, 781--805.
The Evolution of Sensorimotor Functionality - Bedau (1994) (1 citation) Self-citation (Bedau) (Correct)
.... loop [Varela91, Parisi92, Nolfi93] The survival and flourishing of agents, especially those that must act autonomously in an unpredictably changing environment, depends on the functionality of these sensorimotor couplings i.e. the non accidental beneficial effects they provide the agents [Bedau92c, Bedau92a, Bedau93a, Bedau91]. On one view, intelligence consists of just this sort of sensorimotor functionality; intelligent agents are those that have the capacity to flourish by means of suitably adjusting their interactions with an environment on which they depend for resources, even though the agent (and the agent s ....
M. A. Bedau. Where's the good in teleology? Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 52:781--806, 1992.
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