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- Title
Considering Life as a Promiscuous Natural Kind.
- Authors
Soler Parra, Jaime
- Abstract
Despite the growing number of proposals defining life, the difficulties in reaching a minimum consensus when defining it have been increasing. These problems have led a significant number of authors to consider that life cannot be defined. However, such criticisms are based on the idea of life as an essentialist natural kind. On the other hand, there are non-essentialist alternatives when defining life, which are frequently ignored by critics. Among these proposals, it will be shown that considering life as a promiscuous natural kind can solve some of the difficulties with the concept of life.
- Subjects
LIFE; ESSENTIALISM (Philosophy); CRITICS; CRITICISM; PHILOSOPHY
- Publication
Teorema, 2023, Vol 42, Issue 2, p65
- ISSN
0210-1602
- Publication type
Article