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Ayelet Shavit

Disciplines:
philosophy of science
philosophy of science/philosophy of biology

Summary

Israeli philosopher of biology who has worked on the concept of biological race, biodiversity, and the philosophy of conservation biology.

Core Contribution

Contributed to the analysis of race as a biological concept — arguing that whether races are real depends on which biological question one is asking. Work on biodiversity measurement and conservation.

Historical Influences

Philip Kitcher Elliott Sober

Intellectual Lineage

Analytic Philosophy of Biology

Contemporaries & Peers

No recorded contemporaries.

Minds Influenced

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Intellectual Posterity

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