Austin, Christopher J. (2016) Evo-Devo: A Science of Dispositions. [Preprint]
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Evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo) represents a paradigm shift in the understanding of the ontogenesis and evolutionary progression of the denizens of the natural world. Given the empirical successes of the evo-devo framework, and its now widespread acceptance, a timely and important task for the philosophy of biology is to critically discern the ontological commitments of that framework and assess whether and to what extent our current metaphysical models are able to accommodate them. In this paper, I argue that one particular model is a natural fit: an ontology of dispositional properties coherently and adequately captures the crucial casual-cum-explanatory role that the fundamental elements of evo-devo play within that framework.
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| Keywords: | philosophy of biology; dispositions; evolutionary-developmental biology; ontology | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics Specific Sciences > Biology Specific Sciences > Biology > Developmental Biology Specific Sciences > Biology > Function/Teleology General Issues > Causation |
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| Depositing User: | Dr. Christopher J. Austin | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 20 Nov 2016 22:58 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 20 Nov 2016 22:58 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 12651 | ||||||
| Official URL: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13194-01... | ||||||
| DOI or Unique Handle: | 10.1007/s13194-016-0166-9 | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics Specific Sciences > Biology Specific Sciences > Biology > Developmental Biology Specific Sciences > Biology > Function/Teleology General Issues > Causation |
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| Date: | 2016 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/12651 |
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