2010
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Cristian Saborido et al., « La dimensión teleológica del concepto de función biológica desde la perspectiva organizacional », HAL-SHS : histoire, philosophie et sociologie des sciences et des techniques, ID : 10670/1.3p4ke3
Most of current theoretical analyses on biological functions can be classified as etiological or dispositional, depending on how they deal with the teleological dimension. In this paper, we propose a critical survey of these two perspectives, and we argue that some recent studies have set the basis of a new approach which grounds the teleological dimension of functional attributions in the organizational properties of living systems. We outline a new proposal within this new approach, based on an interpretation of living systems as organized self-maintaining systems.