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SUMMARY:The Philosophical Origins of Biological Essentialism
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LOCATION:University of Melbourne\, Melbourne\, Australia
DESCRIPTION:<p><strong>Abstract<br> </strong><br> In biology it is often held that prior to Darwin\, Aristotelian essentialism held sway. In this talk I will argue that in fact it never did\, and that the very notion of Aristotelian essentialism was a mid-20th century invention out of general metaphysics and philosophy of language\, and that a scientific essentialism was misattributed\, from comments of Quine and Popper\, to biology\, particularly taxonomy and systematics. I will then consider to what extent an essentialism is in fact a problem in biology.<br></p>
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