Causalism versus Propensionism in the Philosophy of Biology: A Case of Philosophical Underdetermination?
This paper has two objectives: (1) to define philosophical underdetermination in contrast with the usual empirical underdetermination that has been invoked by so many philosophers of science, expanding on recent work in ethics regarding moral underdetermination; (2) to prove that the debate between...
| Publicado en: | Filozofia Vol. 79; no. 10; pp. 1083 - 1097 |
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