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Essence in the Age of Evolution - A New Theory of Natural Kinds (Paperback)
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Essence in the Age of Evolution - A New Theory of Natural Kinds (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science
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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.
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