Species: New Interdisciplinary Essays

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MIT Press (1999)
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This collection of original essays--by philosophers of biology, biologists, and cognitive scientists--provides a wide range of perspectives on species. Including contributions from David Hull, John Dupre, David Nanney, Kevin de Queiroz, and Kim Sterelny, amongst others, this book has become especially well-known for the three essays it contains on the homeostatic property cluster view of natural kinds, papers by Richard Boyd, Paul Griffiths, and Robert A. Wilson.

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Homeostasis, species, and higher taxa.Richard Boyd
The general lineage concept of species and the defining properties of the species category.Kevin de Queiroz
On the Impossibility of a Monistic Account of Species.John Dupré
Squaring the Circle: Natural Kinds with Historical Essences.Paul E. Griffiths
On the Plurality of Species: Questioning the Party Line.David L. Hull
Getting Rid of Species?Brent D. Mishler
Species as Ecological Mosaics.Kim Sterelny
Introduction.Robert A. Wilson
Realism, Essence, and Kind: Resuscitating Species Essentialism?Robert A. Wilson

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“How to Be a Moral Realist.Richard Boyd - 1988 - In G. Sayre-McCord (ed.), Essays on Moral Realism. Cornell University Press. pp. 181-228.
A Radical Solution to the Species Problem.Michael T. Ghiselin - 1974 - Systematic Zoology 23 (4):536–544.
A matter of individuality.David L. Hull - 1978 - Philosophy of Science 45 (3):335-360.
Species.Philip Kitcher - 1984 - Philosophy of Science 51 (2):308-333.

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