The evolution of biology and the evolutionist biology: species and finality

Revista de Humanidades de Valparaíso 14:395-426 (2019)
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Are species real categories or just conventions? Are species natural kinds? Are teleological statements a distinctive feature of biology? Can life sciences escape from teleology? These are common issues in philosophy of biology. This paper aims to show that in order to answer to each of these questions it is inevitable to take a position respecting the others. Therefore, there is a historical relation between the concept of species and teleological issues. In order to analyse such relation, I will take a historical perspective.After making such historical reconstruction focused on the Aristotle, Linnaeus, Buffon and Lamarck thoughts, I will analyse the Darwinian peculiar view respect teleology and his ideas about species. Although Darwin set out the collapse of teleological essentialisms in biology, there are important vestiges of teleology in his theory.

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original Labrador-Montero, Daniel (2019) "The evolution of biology and the evolutionist biology: specie and finality". Humanities Journal of Valparaiso 14():395-426

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Daniel Labrador Montero
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