Okasha, Samir (2022) On the very idea of biological individuality. [Preprint]
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The burgeoning debate over biological individuality raises deep issues, philosophical and scientific, but suffers from pervasive conceptual unclarity. This paper offers a diagnosis of what has gone wrong. It is argued that the problem of biological individuality, as it is often formulated in the literature, rests on a category mistake. The mistake is to think that the expression “biological individual” is a sortal, when in fact it is not. This diagnosis sheds light on a number of otherwise puzzling aspects of the debate.
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| Keywords: | biological individuality, organism, metaphysics, philosophy of biology | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Biology Specific Sciences > Biology > Evolutionary Theory |
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| Depositing User: | Dr Samir Okasha | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 09 Jul 2022 12:18 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 09 Jul 2022 12:18 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 20868 | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Biology Specific Sciences > Biology > Evolutionary Theory |
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| Date: | 9 July 2022 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/20868 |
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