Matthew H. Slater

Are Species Real?

An Essay on the Metaphysics of Species

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• New Directions in the Philosophy of Science
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-230-39324-0
• 2013
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 145mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 413g
• ISBN-13: 9780230393240
• ISBN-10: 0230393241
• Artikelnr.: 39092511

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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