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The Species Problem
Biological Species, Ontology, and the Metaphysics of Biology
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2003
Summary
In this provocative work, David N. Stamos tackles the problem of determining exactly what a biological species is: in short, whether species are real and the nature of their reality. Although many have written on this topic, The Species Problem is the only comprehensive single-authored book on this central concern of biology. Stamos critically considers the evolution of the three major contemporary views of species: species nominalism, species as classes, and species as individuals. Finally, he develops his own solution to the species problem, a solution aimed at providing a universal species concept worthy of the Modern Synthesis. This book will be of interest to philosophers of biology and of science in general, to historians of biology, and to biologists concerned with one of the most significant (and practical) conceptual issues in their field.
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Copyright year
2003
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-0503-0
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-6118-0
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
381
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1.1 The Species Problem and the Problem of Universals No access
1.2 Ontology and Criteria of Reality No access
1.3 Preliminary Assumptions and Concepts No access
1.4 Abstract of the Book No access
2.1 Preliminary Considerations No access
2.2 Occam and Locke No access
2.3 Buffon, Lamarck, and Darwin No access
2.4 Modern Nominalists in Biology No access
3.1 Plato, Aristotle, and Linnaeus No access
3.2 Species as Elementary Classes No access
3.3 Species as Cluster Classes No access
3.4 Species as Ecological Niches No access
3.5 Problems with Species as Classes No access
4.1 Precursors from Hegel to Mayr No access
4.2 Ghiselin, Hull, et al. No access
4.3 Punctuated Equilibria No access
4.4 Problems with Species as Individuals No access
4.5 Species as Sets, Clades, and Lineages No access
