The causal homogeneity of biological kinds

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作者：

Esfeld, Michael ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Lausanne, Dept Philosophy, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

[2] Univ Lausanne, Ctr Romand Log Hist & Philoscopy Sci, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

来源：

HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF THE LIFE SCIENCES | 2005年 / 27卷 / 3-4期

关键词：

biological kinds; causation; functional properties; homogeneity; laws; reduction; supervenience;

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暂无

中图分类号：

N09 [自然科学史]; B [哲学、宗教];

学科分类号：

01 ; 0101 ; 010108 ; 060207 ; 060305 ; 0712 ;

摘要：

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 classifications being rather coarse-grained, whereas physical classifications are fine-grained.

引用

页码：421 / 433

页数：13

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