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Pluralism and Species Concepts, or When Must we Agree with One Another?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2022

Kent E. Holsinger
Kent E. Holsinger*
Affiliation:
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, The University of Connecticut
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 54 , Issue 3 , September 1987 , pp. 480 - 485
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Copyright © 1987 by the Philosophy of Science Association

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Footnotes

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I am indebted to John Beatty and John Dupré for enlightening discussions on this topic. Philip Kitcher and Elliott Sober were kind enough to comment on an earlier draft of this paper. The research was supported in part by NIH grants GM28016 and GM10452.

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