Aspectos epistemológicos sobre la clasificación biológica y la praxis de la sistemática filogenética

• Zavaro Pérez, Carlos A. ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidad de Belgrano

     Universidad de Belgrano

     Argentina

     
• Localización: Ludus vitalis: revista de filosofía de las ciencias de la vida = journal of philosophy of life sciences = revue de philosophie des sciences de la vie, ISSN 1133-5165, Vol. 25, Nº. 48, 2017, págs. 29-48
• Idioma: español
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  • Epistemological aspects in biological classification and philogenetic systematics practiceBiological classification is addressed from an epistemic-methodological perspective that analyzes the disciplinary practice of taxonomy, on how species are delimited and their phylogenetic relationships are stablished. It is argued that the definition of a taxonomic species neither implies the hypothetic deductive method nor the inductive approach. The argumentative model of Toulmin (2003) is suggested as a theoretical tool to establish attributes and limits to these taxonomic definitions. Thus, the use of the hypothesis is relevant in phylogenetic analysis only concerning monophyly or evolutionary history of taxa.