Clarke, E orcid.org/0000-0003-1839-6405 (2020) Is evolution fundamental when it comes to defining biological ontology? Yes. In: Dasgupta, S, Dotan, R and Weslake, B, (eds.) Current Controversies in Philosophy of Science. Current Controversies in Philosophy . Routledge , Abingdon, UK , pp. 104-118. ISBN 9781138825772
Abstract
To make a case for an affirmative answer to the title question I should say something about what ontology, especially biological ontology, is; Something about what sort of criteria we might use in evaluating different approaches to defining biological ontology; And, finally, what it would mean to take evolution as fundamental in the latter activity. Most of the discussion will center on a particular item of biological ontology – the individual – and on the merits of an evolutionary definition of that item, as opposed to a metabolic definition.
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