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Andrew Woodfield Teleology New York and London: Cambridge University Press, 1976. Pp. viii + 232, $16.95. Larry Wright, Teleological Explanations Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1976. Pp. ix +153, $10.00.

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Andrew Woodfield Teleology New York and London: Cambridge University Press, 1976. Pp. viii + 232, $16.95. Larry Wright, Teleological Explanations Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1976. Pp. ix +153, $10.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

Michael Ruse*
Affiliation:
University of Guelph

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Critical Notice
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Copyright © The Authors 1978

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References

1 See my Philosophy of Biology (London: Hutchinson, 1973) and references therein.

2 I go into this matter in more detail in my “Is Biology Different!” in Colodny, R. ed., Laws, Logic, Life (Pittsburg: University of Pittsburg Press, 1977)Google Scholar.

3 The Major Features of Evolution (New York: Columbia University Press, 1953).

4 “A Reply to Wright's Analysis of Functional Statements”, Philosophy of Science 40 (1973), pp. 277–80.