Alarcón, Nicolás2024-11-052024-11-052022Revista de Humanidades de Valparaiso, Issue 19, Pages 395 - 409, 20220719-4234https://repositorio.unab.cl/handle/ria/61746Indexación: Scopus.This research aims to propose a new theory to account for the functions of biological objects. For this, I will show that the most accepted theories of biological functions fail, and then I will propose a new alternative that overcomes the given counterexamples. The research is divided into the following questions: i) appealing to various counterexamples, noting that there is no robust theory capable of accounting for the phenomenon; finally ii) I will give a minimal provisional/operational theory, which allows us to continue incorporating the functional dimension of the features. © 2022 University of Valparaiso. All rights reserved.esEtiologyNormativityOrganizational theoryPhilosophy of biologyTeleologyArtículoAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Deed10.22370/rhv2022iss19pp395-409