Richard A. Richards

The Species Problem

A Philosophical Analysis

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Richards surveys the history of thinking about species to understand the origin of the problem, and provides an innovative solution.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 515g
• ISBN-13: 9780521196833
• ISBN-10: 0521196833
• Artikelnr.: 29012071

Autorenporträt

Richard A. Richards is Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Alabama. He has published in major journals on a variety of topics in the philosophy of science and biology, including phylogenetic inference, theory of choice, taxonomy, and species concepts. He has also written extensively on Darwin's views about artificial selection and domestic breeding, and contributed to The Cambridge Companion to the Origins of Species (Cambridge, 2009).

Inhaltsangabe

1. The species problem
2. The transformation of Aristotle
3. Linnaeus and the naturalists
4. Darwin and the proliferation of species concepts
5. The division of conceptual labor solution
6. Species and the metaphysics of evolution
7. Meaning, reference and conceptual change
8. Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.