Biological Species Are Natural Kinds.
This paper argues that typical biological species are natural kinds, on a familiar realist understanding of natural kinds-classes of individuals across which certain properties cluster together, in virtue of the causal workings of the world. But the clustering is far from exceptionless. Virtually no...
| Publicado en: | Southern Journal of Philosophy Vol. 46; no. 3; pp. 339 - 363 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Fall2008
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