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Sets, Species, and Evolution: Comments on Philip Kitcher's “Species”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2022

Elliott Sober
Elliott Sober*
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Department of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin—Madison
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 51 , Issue 2 , June 1984 , pp. 334 - 341
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Copyright © Philosophy of Science Association 1984

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This paper is a descendent of one I read at the 1982 Eastern APA symposium on species, commenting on an ancestor of Philip Kitcher's present paper. I thank Philip Kitcher for stimulating discussion, which helped create the selection pressure that guided the evolution of the ancestral paper into the present descendent. I also am grateful to the Graduate School of the University of Wisconsin, Madison for financial support in the form of a Romnes Faculty Fellowship.

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