Species Have (Partly) Intrinsic Essences.

The paper defends the doctrine that Linnaean taxa, including species, have essences that are, at least partly, underlying intrinsic, mostly genetic, properties. The consensus among philosophers of biology is that such essentialism is deeply wrong, indeed incompatible with Darwinism. I argue that bio...

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Published in:	Philosophy of Science Vol. 77; no. 5; pp. 648 - 662
Main Author:	Devitt, Michael
Format:	Article
Published:	Cambridge University Press Dec2010
Subjects:	Linnaea Species Philosophy of biology Biological evolution Natural selection Essentialism (Philosophy)
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