Lean, Christopher (2018) Indexically Structured Ecological Communities (Phil sci Published). [Preprint]
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Abstract
Ecological communities are seldom, if ever, biological individuals. They lack causal boundaries as the populations that constitute communities are not congruent and rarely have persistent functional roles regulating the communities’ higher-level properties. Instead we should represent ecological communities indexically, by identifying ecological communities via the network of weak causal interactions between populations that unfurl from a starting set of populations. This precisification of ecological communities helps identify how community properties remain invariant, and why they have robust characteristics. This is a more general framework than individuality, respecting the diversity and aggregational nature of these complex systems while still vindicating them as units worthy of investigation.
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| Keywords: | Philosophy of Ecology; Communities; Explanation; Conservation; Causation; Metaphysics of Science | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics Specific Sciences > Biology > Ecology/Conservation Specific Sciences > Environmental Science General Issues > Natural Kinds |
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| Depositing User: | Dr Christopher Lean | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 24 Oct 2019 02:25 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 24 Oct 2019 02:25 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 16570 | ||||||
| DOI or Unique Handle: | https://doi.org/10.1086/697746 | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics Specific Sciences > Biology > Ecology/Conservation Specific Sciences > Environmental Science General Issues > Natural Kinds |
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| Date: | 2018 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/16570 |
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