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1 online resource (153 pages) |
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Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science Ser |
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Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science Ser
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Figures; Introduction; 1 Biological Natural Kind Essentialism: Definitions and Desiderata; 1.1 The Philosophical Theory of Natural Kinds; 1.2 Natural Kind Essentialism; 1.3 Aristotelian Biological Natural Kind Essentialism; 1.4 Toward a Neo-Aristotelian Biological Natural Kind Essentialism; 2 Essence and Explanation: Natural Kinds in the Taxonomic Tree; 2.1 A Natural Taxonomy of Kinds; 2.2 Natural Kinds and the Species Concept; 2.3 Two Taxon Questions; 2.4 Type, Telos, and Taxon |
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3 Powerfully Directed Development: A Dispositional Analysis of Ontogenesis3.1 Dispositions and the Dynamics of Dependence; 3.2 The Causal Mechanisms of Morphology; 3.3 Development, Dispositionally; 4 Ontogenetic Causal Primacy: The Fount and Flow of Information; 4.1 The Case Against Primacy I: Polygeny and Pragmatism; 4.2 The Case Against Primacy II: Pleiotropy and Plasticity; 4.3 Primus Inter Pares: Causal Relevance vs. Causal Responsibility; 4.4 Parity and Pragmatism Revisited; 4.5 A More Complex Teleology: Mapping Out Morphospace; 5 The Essence of Natural Kinds: Unity in Diversity |
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5.1 The No Such Set Objection: Phenotypic and Genotypic Diversity5.2 Essence and the Effects of Essence; 5.3 The Form of What Matters; 6 An Evolutionary Ontology: Priority, Modality, and the Natural State; 6.1 The Natural State Model: Being, Backwards; 6.2 Evolutionary Ontology: A Tale of Two Syntheses; 6.3 The Nature of Essence; Conclusion; Index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351240840 |
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1351240846 |
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9781351240833 |
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1351240838 |
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135124082X |
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9781351240857 |
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9781351240826 |
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1351240854 |
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