Are Species Real? [electronic resource] : An Essay on the Metaphysics of Species /
Slater, Matthew H.author.
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.
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""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Series Editor's Foreword""; ""Preface and Acknowledgments""; ""1 Introduction                     ""; ""2 Natural Kinds                      ""; ""3 Essentialism                     ""; ""4 Individualism                      ""; ""5 Metaphysics of Species for the Commitment-wary                                                       ""; ""6 The Natural Kindness Approach                                      ""; ""7 Pluralism and Realism Revisited                                        ""
""Explanation and Discussion Notes                                       """"References                 ""; ""Index            ""
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Philosophy and science.
Metaphysics.
Philosophy of Science.
Metaphysics.
Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary.