The Poverty of the Linnaean Hierarchy
Subtitle: A Philosophical Study of Biological Taxonomy (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 27, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780521781701
Subjects: Philosophy of science; Taxonomy & systematics; Philosophy Of Biology; Science; Philosophy; General; Life Sciences - Biology - General; Biology--Classification--Philosophy; Philosophy / General; Philosophy & Social Aspects; Biology; Classification
First sentence: "The philosophy of classification" is not a phrase one frequently comes across in either philosophy or biology.