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

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  • Publisher: Routledge
  • 15.2 x 22.9 x 1.3 cm

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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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  • Title

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

  • Author

    Christopher J. Austin

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Routledge

  • Published

    June 2021

  • Weight

    227g

  • Dimensions

    15.2 x 22.9 x 1.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9781032094755

  • ISBN-10

    1032094753

  • Eden Code

    5569777

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