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An introduction to biological essentialism
An introduction tobiological essentialismJohn WilkinsBiohumanities ProjectUniversity of QueenslandAn ambiguous term Meaning of essence - what-it-is-to-be Originally tied to substance-formontology of Aristotle Prescientific theory of knowledge basedon defining ordinary terms (Man is arational animal) Separate from other features orproperties (accidents) Invariance of tokens of a typeThe ReceivedView in biology Before Darwin, biological kinds wereessentialist Darwin introduced population thinking The Modern Synthesis showed thatspecies were polytypic (or polymorphic ) Hence, biological essentialism is falseThe history of the ReceivedView Plato fingered by Simpson and Mayr Aristotle by A.
The history of the ReceivedView • Plato fingered by Simpson and Mayr • Aristotle byA.J.Cain in 1958 (Cain was a student of Mayr’s) • Popper’s opposition to“essentialism…
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