Slater Are Species Real?

An Essay on the Metaphysics of Species
2013
ISBN: 978-0-230-39323-3
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 214 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: New Directions in the Philosophy of Science

What are species? Are they objective features of the world? If so, what sort of features are they? Slater presents a novel approach to these questions, aiming to accommodating the attractions to both realism and antirealism about species.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Slater, Matthew H.

Slater, M.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Editor's Foreword Preface and Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Natural Kinds 3. Essentialism 4. Individualism 5. Metaphysics of Species for the Commitment-Wary 6. The Natural Kindness Approach 7. Pluralism & Realism Revisited References Index

Über Autor(innen)

Matthew Slater is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Bucknell University, USA, having received his Ph.D. from Columbia University. He has co-edited such volumes as Carving Nature at its Joints , The Environment , and Reference and Referring  and writes on issues in the philosophy of science and metaphysics.