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(2014) Rivista di estetica 57.
Although biological species might seem paradigmatic natural objects, several objections can be advanced against their independence from taxonomic activities and from scientific and social practices in general. Darwin himself, in the second chapter of the Origin, claimed to be looking «at the term species as one arbitrarily given, for the sake of convenience, to a set of individuals closely resembling each other». In this contribution, I sketch the sticking points of the issue whether species are natural or social objects in the light of two of the main accounts of social objects, namely Searle’s, on the one hand, and Ferraris’ on the other.
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DOI: 10.4000/estetica.741
Full citation:
Casetta, E. (2014). Are species social objects? some notes. Rivista di estetica 57, pp. 173-183.
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