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Author:   Igor Pavlinov
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   CRC Press
Weight:   0.517kg
ISBN:  

9780367654450

ISBN 10:   0367654458
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   26 March 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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"Table of contents Preface Introduction Chapter 1. A brief outline of systematics 1.1. What is the Natural System 1.2. What is biological systematics 1.2.1. The structure of systematics 1.2.2. What does systematics study 1.2.3. How does systematics study 1.2.4. What does systematics study for Chapter 2. Conceptual history of systematics 2.1. Some preliminary considerations 2.1.1. How conceptual history can be written 2.1.2. History of systematics as an evolutionary process 2.1.3. Major steps in the history of systematics 2.2. Prehistory of systematics 2.2.1. An initial step: Folk systematics 2.2.2. Becoming aware of The Method 2.2.3. The Herbal Epoch 2.3. The beginning of systematics: Scholastic revolution 2.3.1. Major features 2.3.2. Major stages 2.4. Emergence of biological systematics: Anti-scholastic revolution 2.4.1. Major non-scholastic motives 2.4.2. The natural systematics 2.4.3. The origin of typology 2.4.4. The ""taxonomic esotericism"" 2.5. A step forward: Evolutionary revolution 2.5.1. First ideas 2.5.2. First debates 2.6. A step aside: Positivist revolution 2.7. Homage to metaphysics: Post-positivist revolution Chapter 3. Some philosophical considerations 3.1. Classical and non-classical science 3.2. Cognitive situation 3.2.1. Cognitive triangle 3.2.2. Conceptual space 3.2.3. Conceptual pyramid 3.3. Some cognitive regulators 3.3.1. Between Umgebung and Umwelts 3.3.2. Between holism and reductionism 3.3.3. Between realism and nominalism 3.3.4. Between monism and pluralism 3.4. Knowledge as an information model 3.5. The logical bases 3.6. Argumentation schemes 3.7. Methodologies and methods 3.7.1. Scientific status of methodologies and methods 3.7.2. Basic methods Chapter 4. An outline of taxonomic theory 4.1. Taxonomic theory as a quasi-axiomatics 4.1.1. General and particular taxonomic theories 4.1.2. Basic quasi-axioms and principles 4.2. Defining basic notions: Two study cases 4.2.1. Taxonomic reality 4.2.2. Classification system Chapter 5. Major research programs in systematics 5.1. The phenetic program 5.2. The rational systematics 5.2.1. The onto-rational program 5.2.2. The episto-rational program 5.3. The numerical program 5.3.1. Major features 5.3.2. Two basic versions 5.3.3. Basic controversies 5.4. The typological program 5.4.1. Major features 5.4.2. Contemporary developments 5.5. The biomorphic program 5.6. The biosystematic program 5.7. The phylogenetic program 5.7.1. Major features 5.7.2. Evolutionary taxonomy 5.7.3. Cladistic systematics 5.8. The evolutionary ontogenetic program? Chapter 6. Taxonomic puzzles 6.1. Between natural and artificial classifications 6.2. Between taxon and character 6.3. Hierarchies: To rank or not to rank? 6.4. Between similarity and kinship 6.5. What is the (arche)type? 6.6. Homology, an unresolved problem 6.7. An undiscoverable essence of species? References"

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Igor Ya. Pavlinov is at the Zoological Museum of the Moscow Lomonosov State University in Moscow, Russia.

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