Linfield Faculty Lecture Series

Title

What, If Anything, Is a Tyrannosaurus Rex?

Streaming Media

Document Type

Video File

Duration

1 hour 22 minutes 51 seconds

Publication Date

10-12-2016

Disciplines

Metaphysics | Paleontology | Philosophy of Science

Abstract

Dr. Leonard Finkelman (assistant professor of philosophy at Linfield College) discusses how, even though the fossils of dinosaurs have been named, the animals themselves are still nameless. Finkelman makes his argument using the example of a Tyrannosaurus Rex — it's the name of rocks, but not the name of the animal whose bones became those rocks.

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