Essence in the Age of Evolution: A New Theory of Natural Kinds - Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science - Austin, Christopher J. (University of Oxford, UK) - Libros - Taylor & Francis Inc - 9780815375067 - 20 de septiembre de 2018
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Essence in the Age of Evolution: A New Theory of Natural Kinds - Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science 1.º edición

Austin, Christopher J. (University of Oxford, UK)

Essence in the Age of Evolution: A New Theory of Natural Kinds - Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science 1.º edición

This book offers a novel defence of a highly contested philosophical position: biological natural kind essentialism. This theory is routinely and explicitly rejected for its purported inability to be explicated in the context of contemporary biological science, and its supposed incompatibility with the process and progress of evolution by natural selection. Christopher J. Austin challenges these objections, and in conjunction with contemporary scientific advancements within the field of evolutionary-developmental biology, the book utilises a contemporary neo-Aristotelian metaphysics of "dispositional properties", or causal powers, to provide a theory of essentialism centred on the developmental architecture of organisms and its role in the evolutionary process. By defending a novel theory of Aristotelian biological natural kind essentialism, Essence in the Age of Evolution represents the fresh and exciting union of cutting-edge philosophical insight and scientific knowledge.


144 pages, 7 Halftones, black and white

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Publicado 20 de septiembre de 2018
ISBN13 9780815375067
Editores Taylor & Francis Inc
Páginas 144
Dimensiones 234 × 272 × 15 mm   ·   346 g
Lengua English