formación de individuos biológicos
Open Access
- 6 October 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Universidad el Bosque in Revista Colombiana de Filosofía de la Ciencia
- Vol. 21 (42), 149-174
- https://doi.org/10.18270/rcfc.v21i42.3502
Abstract
Biology divides nature into a plurality of individual entities (e.g., genes, cells, viruses, organisms, species). The so-called problem of biological individuality can be defined by two central questions. An empirical question that asks how and why a set of biological entities can constitute an individual, and an ontological question that asks what a biological individual is in general. In this research I will focus on the empirical question from a pluralistic and epistemic approach. I will argue that the diversity of criteria and practices used by biology to individuate nature is not a transitory state of scientific research, and should be preserved. La biología divide la naturaleza en una pluralidad de entidades individuales (como genes, células, virus, organismos, especies). El llamado problema de la individualidad biológica puede definirse por dos preguntas centrales. Una pregunta empírica destinada a explicar cómo y por qué una colección de entidades biológicas puede conformar un individuo y una pregunta ontológica que busca responder qué es un individuo biológico en general. En esta investigación abordaré la pregunta empírica desde una aproximación pluralista y epistémica. Argumentaré que la diversidad de criterios y prácticas utilizados por la biología para individuar la naturaleza no es un estado transitorio de la investigación científica y debería conservarse.Keywords
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