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dc.creatorViciana, Hugoes
dc.date.accessioned2021-11-11T18:22:29Z
dc.date.available2021-11-11T18:22:29Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifier.citationViciana, H. (2021). Animal culture: But of which kind?. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 90, 208-218.
dc.identifier.issn0039-3681es
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11441/127277
dc.description.abstractIs animal culture a real entity or is it rather just in the eye of the beholder? The concept of culture began to be increasingly used in the context of animal behaviour research around the 1960s. Despite its success, it is not clear that it represents what philosophers have traditionally thought to be a natural kind. In this article I will show, however, how conceiving of animal culture in this fashion has played a role in the “culture wars”, and what lessons we can draw from this. First, an analysis of the epistemological landscape of author keywords related to the concept of animal cultures is presented, thus vindicating the centrality of the concept in describing a broad range of findings. A minimal definition that encompasses the multiple strands of research incorporating the notion of culture is proposed. I then systematically enumerate the ways in which culture thus conceived cannot be considered a natural kind in the study of animal behaviour. This is accomplished by reviewing the efforts and possibilities of anchoring the elusive idea in specific mechanisms, homologies, selection pressures, homeostatic property clusters, or alternatively, its reduction or elimination. Finally, a plausible interpretation of the scientific status of the animal culture concept is suggested that is compatible with both its well established use in animal behaviour research and its inferential limitations. Culture plays the role of a well-established epistemic kind, a node that connects different areas of research on common themes.es
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dc.format.extent11 p.
dc.language.isoenges
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dc.relation.ispartofStudies in History and Philosophy of Science, 90, 208-218.
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dc.subjectAnimal behavioures
dc.subjectSocial learninges
dc.subjectText mininges
dc.subjectDefinition of culturees
dc.subjectNatural kindses
dc.subjectEliminativismes
dc.titleAnimal culture: But of which kind?es
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlees
dcterms.identifierhttps://ror.org/03yxnpp24
dc.type.versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersiones
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dc.contributor.affiliationUniversidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Filosofía y Lógica y Filosofía de la Cienciaes
dc.relation.publisherversionhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2021.10.012es
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.shpsa.2021.10.012es
dc.journaltitleStudies in History and Philosophy of Sciencees
dc.publication.volumen90es
dc.publication.issuees
dc.publication.initialPage208es
dc.publication.endPage218es

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