Are animal breeds social kinds?

Oriol Vidal y David Teira . () Are animal breeds social kinds?.

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Título	Are animal breeds social kinds?
Autor(es)	Oriol Vidal David Teira
Materia(s)	Filosofía
Abstract	Breeds are classifications of domestic animals that share, to a certain degree, a set of conventional phenotypic traits. We are going to defend that, despite classifying biological entities, animal breeds are social kinds. We will adopt Godman’s view of social kinds, classifications with predictive power based on social learning processes. We will show that, although the folk concept of animal breed refers to a biological kind, there is no way to define it. The expert definitions of breeds are instead based on socially learnt conventions and skills (artificial selection), yielding groupings in which scientific predictions are possible. We will discuss in what sense breeds are social, but not human kinds and in what sense the concept of a breed is necessary to make them real.
Palabras clave	race breed kinds
Formato	application/pdf
Identificador	bibliuned:501137
DOI - identifier	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-022-04016
Nombre de la revista	Synthese
Número de Volumen	201
Número de Issue	7
Versión de la publicación	publishedVersion
Tipo de recurso	Article
Derechos de acceso y licencia	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Tipo de acceso	Acceso abierto

Tipo de documento:	Artículo de revista
Collection:	Departamento Lógica, Historia, Filosofía de la Ciencia (UNED). Artículos

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Creado:	Tue, 24 Jan 2023, 23:02:02 CET by David Teira

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