Essentialism, species and natural kinds
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natural kind, species, essentialism, epistemic valueAbstract
This paper aims at stating the range of the various possible responses regarding the nature of natural kinds, especially considering the cases of biological species. I will put forward the existence of a philosophically significant convergence between two of these responses that initially appear as inconsistent. I will describe this convergence in terms of a cooccurrence of epistemic values (Ruse, 1999), that is, in terms of a coincidence with those theory features that are of interest to us because of their significance to scientific explanation.
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