Biochemical Kinds
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8396182 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jordan Bartol (University of Leeds, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 67 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 531-551 |
| Publication date | 2016-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-0882 • E-ISSN: 1464-3537 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/bjps/axu046 |
| OpenAlex | W4232964262 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 14 |
Chemical kinds (for example, gold) are generally treated as having timelessly fixed identities. Biological kinds (for example, goldfinches) are generally treated as evolved and/or evolving entities. So what kind of kind is a biochemical kind? This article defends the thesis that biochemical molecules are clustered chemical kinds, some of which—namely, evolutionarily conserved units—are also biological kinds. On this thesis, a number of difficulties that have recently occupied philosophers concerned with proteins and kinds are shown to be either resolved or dissolved. 1 Introduction2 Conflicting Intuitions about Kinds of Proteins3 Against Permissive Pluralism4 Against Nominalism, Toward a Duality of Kinds5 Biological Kinds, Chemical Kinds, and Their Relations6 Implications for Biological Individuals7 Implications for Monism and Scientific Practice
Duality (order theory) · Epistemology · Monism · Nominalism · Pure mathematics · Mathematics · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.88 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |