Barker, Matthew J. and Velasco, Joel D. (2012) Deep Conventionalism about Evolutionary Groups. In: UNSPECIFIED.

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We argue for a new conventionalism about many kinds of evolutionary groups, including clades, cohesive units, and populations. This rejects a consensus, which says that given any one of the many legitimate grouping concepts, only objective biological facts determine whether a collection is such a group. Surprisingly, being any one kind of evolutionary group typically depends on which of many incompatible values are taken by suppressed variables. This is a novel pluralism underlying most any one group concept, rather than a familiar pluralism claiming many concepts are legitimate. Consequently, we must help biological facts determine grouphood, even when given a single grouping concept.

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Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (UNSPECIFIED)
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Barker, Matthew J. matthew.barker@concordia.ca Velasco, Joel D. joel@joelvelasco.net
Keywords:	evolutionary group; species; population; clade; species cohesion; conventionalism; pluralism; objectivity; realism; natural kinds; science and values
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Biology > Evolutionary Theory Specific Sciences > Biology > Systematics General Issues > Conventionalism
Depositing User:	Matthew Barker
Date Deposited:	10 Nov 2012 14:50
Last Modified:	11 Nov 2012 16:09
Item ID:	9436
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Biology > Evolutionary Theory Specific Sciences > Biology > Systematics General Issues > Conventionalism
Date:	24 May 2012
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/9436

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