The modern age of species concepts began in 1942, when Ernst Mayr gave concept names
to several different approaches to species identification. A long list of species concepts then …

The notion that all prokaryotes belong to genomically and phenomically cohesive clusters
that we might legitimately call “species” is a contentious one. At issue are (1) whether such …

THIS BOOK owes its existence to many intellectual interactions and opportunities. It began
life as a much more ambitious project, a rearticulation of the thesis of the sociality of …

This book is a venture in the metaphysics of science, the exploration of the most basic
features of the world implied or presupposed by science. One of its main aims is to …

Scientific realism is the view that our best scientific theories give approximately true
descriptions of both observable and unobservable aspects of a mind-independent world …

Scientific disciplines frequently divide the particulars they study into kinds and theorize
about those kinds. To say that a kind is natural is to say that it corresponds to a grouping that …

An essential introduction to the philosophy of biology This is a concise, comprehensive, and
accessible introduction to the philosophy of biology written by a leading authority on the …

According to the received tradition, the language used to to refer to natural kinds in scientific
discourse remains stable even as theories about these kinds are refined. In this illuminating …

Given the proliferation of species concepts in recent years, it might seem that the species
problem-the difficulty of reaching agreement about the de6nition of the species category-is …

The species category marks the boundary between systematics and population biology,
hence a clear understanding of species is critical for both these fields and their …