Are Species Real? An Essay on the Metaphysics of Species
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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Also by Matthew H. Slater REFERENCE AND REFERRING (co-editor with William Kabsenche and Michael O’Rourke) THE ENVIRONMENT: Philosophy, Science, and Ethics (co-editor with William Kabsenche and Michael O’Rourke) CARVING NATURE AT ITS JOINTS: Natural Kinds in Science and Metaphysics (co-editor with Joseph Keim Campbell and Michael O’Rourke)
Are Species Real? An Essay on the Metaphysics of Species Matthew H. Slater Bucknell University, USA
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