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#philosophy-of-biology
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Species are drawn, not discovered: biology has already chosen nominalism
I study kelp forests along the Chilean coast. Within my working life, the species boundaries in some of the kelp groups I study have been argued over and redrawn on the basis of genetic data, and colleagues still disagree about how many…
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Splitting causation from explanation was a modern mistake, not an Aristotelian one
I study kelp forests on the Chilean coast. I came to philosophy through Maturana and Varela, the Chilean biologists who described living things as self-producing systems in the early 1970s, and I keep running into the same problem. To explain why a…
Started by Ignacio Fuenzalida6 replies212 views