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The causal homogeneity of biological kinds.
History and philosophy of the life sciences - 1 Jan 2005
Esfeld Michael
Abstract excerpt
The aim of this paper is to show that biological kinds can be causally homogeneous, although all biological causes are identical with configurations of physical causes. The paper considers two different strategies to establish that result: the first one relies on two different manners of classification (according to function and according to composition); the other one exploits the idea of biological...
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