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Paul Sheldon Davies, Norms of Nature: Naturalism and the Nature of Function. A Bradford Book. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2001; Peter McLaughlin, What Functions Explain: Functional Explanation and Self-Reproducing Systems. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001; Del Ratzsch, Nature, Design, and Science: The Status of Design in Natural Science. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001

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Ratcliffe, M. Paul Sheldon Davies, Norms of Nature: Naturalism and the Nature of Function. A Bradford Book. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2001; Peter McLaughlin, What Functions Explain: Functional Explanation and Self-Reproducing Systems. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001; Del Ratzsch, Nature, Design, and Science: The Status of Design in Natural Science. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. Metascience 12, 312–321 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:MESC.0000005817.10723.84

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