Are Species Real?

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

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   Pages 1-20

3. Natural Kinds

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4. Essentialism

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5. Individualism

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6. Metaphysics of Species for the Commitment-wary

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7. The Natural Kindness Approach

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8. Pluralism and Realism Revisited

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9. Back Matter

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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.

• antirealism
• argue
• concept
• individual
• knowledge
• metaphysics
• novel
• philosophy
• philosophy of biology
• physics
• pluralism
• realism

• Bucknell University, USA

  Matthew H. Slater

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.

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