Book ID: CBB460272553

Essence in the Age of Evolution: A New Theory of Natural Kinds (2018)

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Austin, Christopher J. (Author)


Routledge


Publication Date: 2018
Physical Details: 152
Language: English

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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Review Silvia Basanta Martínez (2019) Review of "Essence in the Age of Evolution: A New Theory of Natural Kinds". History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences (p. 35). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Henry, Marc
Jones, Derek M.
Ross, Lauren N.
Rice, Collin C.
Rohwer, Yasha
Heams, Thomas
Concepts
Philosophy of biology
Biology
Metaphysics
Evolution
Epistemology
Experimental method
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
19th century
Ancient
20th century, late
18th century
Places
Greece
Germany
Berlin (Germany)
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