Species : new interdisciplinary essays /

Species : new interdisciplinary essays / edited by Robert A. Wilson. - Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1999. - 1 online resource (xxi, 325 pages) : illustrations - A Bradford Book Ser. . - Bradford Book Ser. .

"A Bradford book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

On the impossibility of a monistic account of species / On the plurality of species: questioning the party line / The general lineage concept of species and the defining properties of the species category / When is a rose?: the kinds of tetrahymena / Species as ecological mosaics / Homeostasis, species, and higher taxa / Realism, essence, and kind: resuscitating species essentialism? / squaring the circle: natural kinds with historical essences / The universal primacy of generic species in folkbiological taxonomy: implications for human biological, cultural, and scientific evolution / Species, stuff, and patterns of causation / Species and the linnaean hierarchy / Getting rid of species? / by John Dupré -- by David L. Hull -- by Kevin de Queiroz -- by David L. Nanney -- by Kim Sterelny -- by Richard Boyd -- by robert a. wilson -- by Paul E. Griffiths -- by Scott Atran -- by Frank C. Keil and Daniel C. Richardson -- by Marc Ereshefsky -- by Brent D. Mishler. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.

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


English.

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Species--Philosophy.
Espèces (Biologie)--Philosophie.
SCIENCE--Life Sciences--Evolution.
Species--Philosophy.
Art
Biologie
Naturwissenschaften
Philosophie
Aufsatzsammlung
Soorten (biologie)
Filosofische aspecten.
Ecology.
Earth & Environmental Sciences.
Espèces (biologie)


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