What Functions Explain: Functional Explanation and Self-Reproducing Systems (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology) - Softcover

Buch 5 von 23: Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology

McLaughlin, Peter

 
9780521038850: What Functions Explain: Functional Explanation and Self-Reproducing Systems (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0521038855 ISBN 13: 9780521038850
Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2008

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This 2001 book provides a sophisticated and detailed Aristotelian analysis of our concept of natural functions.

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Peter McLaughlin was born in 1963 in Boston, Massachusetts. He was diagnosed with a hole in his heart, called a heart murmur, and a very slow heartbeat. When Peter was 10 years old he underwent heart surgery at Boston Children's Hospital. The doctors repaired the hole in his heart and implanted a pacemaker to keep his heart rate up. That summer the local television station, WGBH, called and asked him to be on the children's program ZOOM, and talk about his surgery and his pacemaker. Peter lived a normal, active life. He graduated from the University of Massachusetts Amherst with a bachelor's degree, and then went on to Boston College to receive his master's degree in social work. At the age of 27 Peter had a massive stroke. He had been right-handed, and was unable to move his right leg or arm. After months of rehabilitation he returned to his childhood home to live with his mother and stepfather. During this time, Peter began drawing with his left hand, sitting for days with a pad of paper and a pencil in front of the window. On Christmas Day, he presented his mother with a pencil drawing of the flowers on the windowsill. Peter entered a watercolor, featuring his good pal Rufus, into an art contest at Topsfield Fair, and out of hundreds of entries, took second place. Peter then began drawing note cards and calendars, which he sold, and eventually began creating the art that became his first children's book.

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Verlag
Cambridge University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0521038855
ISBN 13 
9780521038850
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Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
272
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