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    A theory of human nature grounded in species descriptions should explain why certain properties are emphasized over others

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    • 1.Species are not natural kinds and are thus unsuited to figuring in laws of nature
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    • 2.Species do support descriptions with a significant degree of generality
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    • 3.Some of those general descriptions may be important
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    • 1.Aristotelian natural teleology, which grounded species-based normative descriptions, was rejected by the scientific revolution and cannot be rehabilitated without independent justification.
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    • 2.Without a defensible teleological framework, any selection of 'emphasized' properties reflects contingent human values rather than objective species facts.
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    • 3.A theory that embeds value-laden selections into ostensibly descriptive species accounts commits a category error between normative and biological explanation.
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    • 1.Hume's is-ought gap entails that no set of species descriptions, however general, can by itself justify which properties ought to be normatively emphasized.
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    • 2.Philippa Foot's neo-Aristotelian response in 'Natural Goodness' presupposes that humans share a determinate life-form, a claim contested by evolutionary biology's emphasis on variation and plasticity.
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    The kinds of reasons that may be advanced could either be internal to, or independent of the biological sciences. If the former, then various theoretical options may seem viable. The first grounds in the claim that, although species are not natural kinds and are thus unsuited to figuring in laws of nature (Hull 1987: 171), they do support descriptions with a significant degree of generality, some of which may be important (Hull 1984: 19). A theory of human nature developed on this basis should e
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