The Poverty of the Linnaean Hierarchy
Subtitle: A Philosophical Study of Biological Taxonomy (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 6, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780521038836
Subjects: Life sciences: general issues; Taxonomy & systematics; Philosophy; Science; Life Sciences - Biology - General; Biology--Classification--Philosophy; Philosophy / General; Philosophy : General; Science / Biology; Social Science : General; General
First sentence: "The philosophy of classification" is not a phrase one frequently comes across in either philosophy or biology.