Defending Intrinsic Biological Essentialism.
In "Resurrecting Biological Essentialism," I went against the consensus in the philosophy of biology by arguing that a Linnaean taxon, including a species, has an essence that is, at least partly, an underlying intrinsic, mostly genetic, property: this intrinsic nature explains both the truth of gen...
| Published in: | Philosophy of Science Vol. 88; no. 1; pp. 67 - 83 |
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Cambridge University Press
Jan2021
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