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.

About the author

Matthew Slater is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Bucknell University, USA, having received his Ph.D. from Columbia University. He has co-edited such volumes as
Carving Nature at its Joints
,
The Environment
, and
Reference and Referring
 and writes on issues in the philosophy of science and metaphysics.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Matthew H Slater, M. Slater, Matthew H. Slater
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 30.10.2013
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works
• EAN: 9780230393240
• ISBN: 978-0-230-39324-0
• Pages: 225
• Series: New Directions in the Philosophy of Science; New Directions of the Philosop; New Directions in the Philosophy of Science; New Directions of the Philosop
• Subjects: B, Interdisziplinäre Studien, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary, Humanities and Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary studies, Realism, Philosophie: Metaphysik und Ontologie, Pluralism, Metaphysics, Philosophy and science, Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection