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work_ivxhn7bg3fc6tjue3o36tyn4aa	Justin Garson	How to Be a Function Pluralist	2017	43	.pdf	application/pdf	9690	687	58	I distinguish two forms of pluralism about biological functions, between-discipline psychology (for example, that the selected effects theory of function is appropriate for the importance of selection processes in thinking about function. and emphasizes the plurality of function concepts within any branch of biology. function-bestowing selection processes in nature, and in particular, trial-and-error In response, philosophically-astute biologists argued that ENCODE relies on an overlyliberal construal of function that runs contrary to standard usage in biology (Graur et al. explicitly rejects the exclusive use of the [selected effects] concept of function. popular pluralism is that biologists implicitly appeal to selection when they use function But there are many function-bestowing selection processes in nature, other than 1015; also see Rakic [1976]; Antonini and Stryker [1993]; Price et al. I claim antibody selection and neural selection are function-bestowing processes because selection process in the natural world that can give rise to functions.	./cache/work_ivxhn7bg3fc6tjue3o36tyn4aa.pdf	./txt/work_ivxhn7bg3fc6tjue3o36tyn4aa.txt