Role Functions, Mechanisms, and Hierarchy
- 1 March 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Philosophy of Science
- Vol. 68 (1) , 53-74
- https://doi.org/10.1086/392866
Abstract
Many areas of science develop by discovering mechanisms and role functions. Cummins' (1975) analysis of role functions-according to which an item's role function is a capacity of that item that app...Keywords
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