Necessity, Teleology, and Darwin: A Defense of Aristotelian Essentialism
| dc.contributor.advisor | Migotti, Mark | |
| dc.contributor.author | Schoepfer, Andrew | |
| dc.contributor.committeemember | Latham, Noa | |
| dc.contributor.committeemember | Ereshefsky, Marc | |
| dc.date | 2021-11 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-09-02T13:54:35Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-09-02T13:54:35Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021-08-30 | |
| dc.description.abstract | I begin with an elaboration on the progressivist anti-Aristotelian narratives that caricature Aristotle and dismiss him as a natural philosopher so to establish the terms of a rebuttal in his favor. In Part One I focus on Aristotle’s essentialism from a more general metaphysical viewpoint. With the general position explicated and defended, in Part 2 I focus on combating a more specific critique from the vantage point of Darwinian natural selection and the ontological status of species. I conclude that the proposition “if natural selection is true then Aristotelian Species Essentialism is false” is false. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Schoepfer, A. (2021). Necessity, Teleology, and Darwin: A Defense of Aristotelian Essentialism (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/39157 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1880/113812 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Arts | en_US |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Calgary | en |
| dc.rights | University of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Aristotle | en_US |
| dc.subject | Essentialism | en_US |
| dc.subject | Teleology | en_US |
| dc.subject.classification | Philosophy | en_US |
| dc.title | Necessity, Teleology, and Darwin: A Defense of Aristotelian Essentialism | en_US |
| dc.type | master thesis | en_US |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Philosophy | en_US |
| thesis.degree.grantor | University of Calgary | en_US |
| thesis.degree.name | Master of Arts (MA) | en_US |
| ucalgary.item.requestcopy | true | en_US |
