Article ID: CBB001221601

Essentialism, History, and Biological Taxa (2012)

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de Queiroz (1995), Griffiths (1999) and LaPorte (2004) offer a new version of essentialism called historical essentialism. According to this version of essentialism, relations of common ancestry are essential features of biological taxa. The main type of argument for this essentialism proposed by Griffiths (1999) and LaPorte (2004) is that the dominant school of classification, cladism, defines biological taxa in terms of common ancestry. The goal of this paper is to show that this argument for historical essentialism is unsatisfactory: cladism does not assume that relations of common ancestry are essential attributes of biological taxa. Therefore, historical essentialism is not justified by cladism.

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Authors & Contributors
Michael R. McGowen
Isabel Gabel
James G. Mead
Conix, Stijn
Yagel Gouvêa, Devin Susanne
Spencer, Quayshawn
Concepts
Biology
Philosophy of biology
Evolution
Philosophy of science
Classification in biology
Terminology and nomenclature
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
20th century, late
21st century
20th century, early
Places
United States
Sicily
Netherlands
France
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