Organic Metaphors

[JKSCHW at aol.com]

In a message dated 00-02-09 17:17:57 EST, you write:

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  James Farmelant <farmelantj at juno.com> 02/09/00 04:16PM >>

 Speaking of functionalism, Justin's old intellectual hero G.A. Cohen

 in his KMTH proposed a form of functionalism which rejected the

 three theses of Radcliffe-Brown and Malinowski:

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Cohen defends functional explanation, not "functionalism." In case anyone is 
interested, I discussed Cohen's views and Elster's criticisms in a paper 
called "Functional Explanationa nd Metaphysical Individualism," Philosophy of 
Science 1993, which I like to flatter myself is still pretty darn good.

--jks