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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Publicado en:Philosophy of Science Vol. 77; no. 5; pp. 648 - 662
Autor principal: Devitt, Michael
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Cambridge University Press Dec2010
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