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Species : new interdisciplinary essays / edited by Robert A. Wilson.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Bradford Book SerCopyright date: ©1999Description: 1 online resource (xxi, 325 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585102708
  • 9780585102702
  • 9780262286350
  • 0262286351
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Species.DDC classification:
  • 576.8/6 21
LOC classification:
  • QH83 .S725 1999eb
Other classification:
  • 42.02
  • CC 6300
  • CC 3700
  • WH 2100
  • 576.86
Online resources:
Contents:
1. On the impossibility of a monistic account of species / by John Dupré -- 2. On the plurality of species: questioning the party line / by David L. Hull -- 3. The general lineage concept of species and the defining properties of the species category / by Kevin de Queiroz -- 4. When is a rose?: the kinds of tetrahymena / by David L. Nanney -- 5. Species as ecological mosaics / by Kim Sterelny -- 6. Homeostasis, species, and higher taxa / by Richard Boyd -- 7. Realism, essence, and kind: resuscitating species essentialism? / by robert a. wilson -- 8. squaring the circle: natural kinds with historical essences / by Paul E. Griffiths -- 9. The universal primacy of generic species in folkbiological taxonomy: implications for human biological, cultural, and scientific evolution / by Scott Atran -- 10. Species, stuff, and patterns of causation / by Frank C. Keil and Daniel C. Richardson -- 11. Species and the linnaean hierarchy / by Marc Ereshefsky -- 12. Getting rid of species? / by Brent D. Mishler.
Summary: This fresh collection of essays, drawn from a broad range of disciplines, brings neglected cognitive, anthropological, and historical dimensions to philosophical debates over species.
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1. On the impossibility of a monistic account of species / by John Dupré -- 2. On the plurality of species: questioning the party line / by David L. Hull -- 3. The general lineage concept of species and the defining properties of the species category / by Kevin de Queiroz -- 4. When is a rose?: the kinds of tetrahymena / by David L. Nanney -- 5. Species as ecological mosaics / by Kim Sterelny -- 6. Homeostasis, species, and higher taxa / by Richard Boyd -- 7. Realism, essence, and kind: resuscitating species essentialism? / by robert a. wilson -- 8. squaring the circle: natural kinds with historical essences / by Paul E. Griffiths -- 9. The universal primacy of generic species in folkbiological taxonomy: implications for human biological, cultural, and scientific evolution / by Scott Atran -- 10. Species, stuff, and patterns of causation / by Frank C. Keil and Daniel C. Richardson -- 11. Species and the linnaean hierarchy / by Marc Ereshefsky -- 12. Getting rid of species? / by Brent D. Mishler.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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This fresh collection of essays, drawn from a broad range of disciplines, brings neglected cognitive, anthropological, and historical dimensions to philosophical debates over species.

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