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Ideas of John Dupré, by Text
[British, fl. 1993, At Stanford and Birkbeck, and the Professor at Exeter University.]
1993
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The Disorder of Things
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Intro
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p.3
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17374
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The possibility of prediction rests on determinism
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Intro
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p.5
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17375
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Natural kinds are decided entirely by the intentions of our classification
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1
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p.18
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17377
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All descriptive language is classificatory
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1
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p.26
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17378
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Presumably molecular structure seems important because we never have the Twin Earth experience
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1
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p.27
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17379
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Borders between species are much less clear in vegetables than among animals
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1
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p.30
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17380
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Wales may count as fish
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1
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p.32
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17381
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Phylogenetics involves history, and cladism rests species on splits in lineage
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1
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p.34
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17382
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Cooks, unlike scientists, distinguish garlic from onions
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2
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p.37
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17383
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Species are the lowest-level classification in biology
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2
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p.39
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17384
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Even atoms of an element differ, in the energy levels of their electrons
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2
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p.40
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17385
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Kinds don't do anything (including evolve) because they are abstract
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2
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p.42
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17386
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The theory of evolution is mainly about species
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2
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p.43
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17387
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Ecologists favour classifying by niche, even though that can clash with genealogy
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2
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p.53
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17388
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It seems that species lack essential properties, so they can't be natural kinds
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2
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p.55
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17389
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A species might have its essential genetic mechanism replaced by a new one
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3
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p.67
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17390
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Natural kinds don't need essentialism to be explanatory
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Ch 1
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p.18
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17376
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We should aim for a classification which tells us as much as possible about the object
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