CPS Reading group 26/11

[Thomas Graham]

Hi all,

After a small hiatus, and before the end of the year, CPS reading
group plans to have a couple of readings on biological essentialism.
This week, the CPS reading group will be reading The Effect of
Essentialism on Taxonomy- Two Thousand Years of Stasis (II), by David
Hull. You can find the paper attached to this email.

As always, the group will meet at 11am on Wednesday, in room 5.72. You
can find the abstract below, and the zoom link below that.

Cheers,

Tom

Excerpt, in lieu of abstract:
Thus far all that has been shown is that with respect to taxa names
taxonomists have rejected Aristotelian definition. It has yet shown
that they have failed to eliminate completely their predisposition for
Aristotelian definition and that this failure has been at least in
part responsible for the persistence of the species problem. Species
will be treated in this paper only from the point of view of
phylogenetic taxonomy; that is, from the point of view that
classification must have some systematic relationship to phylogeny and
that the unit of classification must be the unit of evolution. In
order for such a position on the status of 'species' to be justified,
not only must an adequate definition of 'species' as an evolutionary
unit be given but also the phylogenetic programme Itself must be
shown to be feasible and significant. Only the former will be
attempted in this paper.

Zoom link:
https://anu.zoom.us/j/82595801661?pwd=abASKA1huY1LWb7kwXcWVELJa5n3sJ.1