Contents -- Series Foreword -- Preface -- I Introduction -- 1 Philosophical Perspectives on Organismic and Artifactual Functions -- II Bridging Functions of Organisms and Artifacts -- 2 Changing the Mission of Theories of Teleology -- 3 Biological and Cultural Proper Functions in Comparative Perspective -- 4 How Biological, Cultural, and Intended Functions Combine -- 5 On Unification -- III Functions and Normativity -- 6 Functions and Norms -- 7 The Inherent Normativity of Functions in Biology and Technology -- 8 Conceptual Conservatism -- 9 Ecological Restoration -- IV Functions and Classification -- 10 Being For -- 11 Realism and Artifact Kinds -- 12 A Device-Oriented Definition of Functions of Artifacts and Its Perspectives -- V Evolutionary Perspectives -- 13 The Open Border -- 14 Innovation and Population -- 15 The Cost of Modularity -- 16 Technical Artifacts, Engineering Practice, and Emergence -- Contributors -- Index.