Pluralism and sex: More than a pragmatic issue
Proceedings of the Philosophy of Science Association 2001 (3):S237- (2001)
| Abstract | The evolution of sexual reproduction is a case of explanatory pluralism, meaning that there is more than one explanation for this phenomenon. I use the concept of a domain to more clearly explicate the various explananda that can be found in this case. I argue that although pluralism with respect to some types of domains can be decreased using van Fraassen’s pragmatics of explanation, there remains an important class of domain, an orthogonal domain, for which this is not the case. | |||||||||
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