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10.1007/s15015-012-0628-7

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Phylogenetic inference to the best explanation and

Authors: Aleta Quinn
Publish Date: 2015/10/05
Volume: 193, Issue: 9, Pages: 3025-3039
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I respond to the bad lot argument in the context of biological systematics The response relies on the historical nature of biological systematics and on the availability of pattern explanations The basic assumption of common descent enables systematic methodology to naturally generate candidate explanatory hypotheses However systematists face a related challenge in the issue of character analysis Character analysis is the central problem for contemporary systematics yet the general problem of which it is a case—what counts as evidence—has not been adequately discussed by proponents of inference to the best explanation Facing this problem is the price of adopting abductive methods I sketch an account of how systematists approach the problem of evidenceI thank James Lennox Kevin de Queiroz and two anonymous reviewers for comments that improved this paper Parts of this work were supported by a Smithsonian Institution Predoctoral Fellowship and by a Grant from the University of Pittsburgh’s Provost Development Fund

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