Two ontogenetic challenges to trait individuation.
Trait individuation is an epistemically indispensable and heuristically fruitful practice in biological science. However, important ontological issues transcend an epistemology-only reading of what trait individuation entails (e.g., adaptation and homology), prompting scholars to advance models and...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 205; no. 6; pp. 1 - 28 |
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