The phrase "accounts of function" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are discussing descriptions or explanations of how something operates or serves a purpose.
Example: "The research paper provided several accounts of function for the newly developed software, highlighting its efficiency and user-friendliness."
Alternatives: "descriptions of function" or "explanations of function".
This criterion is well suited for ruling out a single-process account of function, such as intensity or salience.
Rather, he plugs an etiological account of function into a Boorsian model, and his approach has been developed with little attempt to argue that medicine does in fact use an evolutionary, teleological account of function.
Supporters of an evolutionary account of function advertise the ease with which an account of malfunction follows from the theory as one of its virtues.
This stress on a distinctively evolutionary account of function is unattractive, since the biomedical sciences seem to employ a different conception of function.
Some recent theorists, notably Wakefield, have argued for an evolutionary account of function as that which has historically been spread by natural selection.
Up till now there is no accepted general account of function that covers both the intentionality-based notion of artifact function and the non-intentional notion of biological function not to speak of other areas where the concept plays a role, such as the social sciences.
Kingma contends that Boorse's account of function needs to capture not only the qualitative causal contribution made by a system to overall functioning, but also the quantitative features of its contribution: a healthy heart is not just a pump, but a pump that works at a given rate.
Most advocates of teleosemantics accept the etiological account of functions according to which the function of a device is a selected effect, i.e. an effect produced by the device that explains the continued proliferation of tokens of this type of device.
Accounts of ACC function must seek instead to elucidate its role across a wide range of cognitive, affective, and behavioural processes.
These findings extend existing theoretical accounts of MTL function, and challenge current concepts of cognitive impairment in dementia.
