Claude Bernard and his concept of physiological function

Resumen

The way in which Claude Bernard understood the functional attributions proper to Physiology can be better understood considering what, in the current Philosophy of Biology, is characterized as the conception of functions as causal roles. Moreover, the way in which Bernard explains the notion of function serves to show the sufficiency of this conception of the concept of function in Physiology, and to show that the etiological conception of the concept of function does not consider the assumptions under which, the functional imputations that are given in Physiology, are admitted. Bernard's approach states that the notion of function is not a historical notion and that functional analyzes are only a particular form of causal analysis