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PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Volume 74, Issue 3, Pages 364-385Publisher
UNIV CHICAGO PRESS
DOI: 10.1086/521970
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Accounts of the concepts of function and dysfunction have not adequately explained what factors determine the line between low-normal function and dysfunction. I call the challenge of doing so the line-drawing problem. Previous approaches emphasize facts involving the action of natural selection (Wakefield 1992a, 1999a, 1999b) or the statistical distribution of levels of functioning in the current population (Boorse 1977, 1997). I point out limitations of these two approaches and present a solution to the line-drawing problem that builds on the second one.
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