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work_jogafalozjdwxfgc34snqzllxy	P. Pettit	Functional Explanation and Virtual Selection	1996	13	.pdf	application/pdf	5814	334	57	Oxford University Press and The British Society for the Philosophy of Science are collaborating with JSTOR to undermines a certain sort of functional explanation in social science. functional explanation in social science is to explain why certain social question as to what sort of mechanism underlies functional explanation in functional explanations in social science there is no obvious mechanism are available for social-functional explanation in general (Pettit [1993], functional explanation in social science should often be taken in the argument in this case is that if functional explanation can be explanatory The importance of the possibility is that if functional explanations serve just The functional explanation of why a trait is present in a society requires The virtual selection mechanism that would serve functional explanation in virtual selection mechanisms then it will be serving well the resiliencecentred programme of functional explanation. Functional Explanation and Virtual Selection [pp.291-302] Functional Explanation and Virtual Selection [pp.291-302]	./cache/work_jogafalozjdwxfgc34snqzllxy.pdf	./txt/work_jogafalozjdwxfgc34snqzllxy.txt