Defending Intrinsic Biological Essentialism

Philosophy of Science 88 (1):67-82 (2021)
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In “Resurrecting Biological Essentialism,” I went against the consensus in the philosophy of biology by arguing that a Linnaean taxon, including a species, has an essence that is, at least partly,...

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