Darwin and the Nature of Species

Author:   David N. Stamos
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
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9780791469378


Pages:   293
Publication Date:   09 November 2006
Format:   Hardback
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Darwin and the Nature of Species


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Examines Darwin's concept of species in a philosophical context.

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Author:   David N. Stamos
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.535kg
ISBN:  

9780791469378


ISBN 10:   0791469379
Pages:   293
Publication Date:   09 November 2006
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgments 1. A History of Nominalist Interpretation 2. Taxon, Category, and Laws of Nature 3. The Horizontal/Vertical Distinction and the Language Analogy 4. Common Descent and Natural Classification 5. Natural Selection and the Unity of Science 6. Not Sterility, Fertility, or Niches 7. The Varieties Problem 8. Darwin's Strategy 9. Concept Change in Scientific Revolutions 10. Darwin and the New Historiography Notes References Index

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Stamos works to tease out a consistent concept of species from the whole corpus of Darwin's work ... He ... offers a critical analysis of Kuhnian interpretations of Darwin's work, and one critical of purely 'externalist' accounts of science and of Darwin's scientific work in particular. - CHOICE ...a plausible, well-argued, and empirically sustained interpretation of Darwin's concept of species. - ISIS Even if the author's opponents remain unconverted by this book, they will heartily appreciate its deep scholarship and careful reasoning. While it is unlikely that anyone will ever deliver the final word on Darwin's philosophy of biology, this book will force those who find in Darwin an ally for nominalism to reconsider and soften their claims. - Loyal Rue, author of Everybody's Story: Wising Up to the Epic of Evolution This book is a fine contribution to the ongoing debate on the Darwinian revolution. - Michael T. Ghiselin, author of Metaphysics and the Origin of Species


Author Information

David N. Stamos teaches philosophy at York University, Toronto and is the author of The Species Problem: Biological Species, Ontology, and the Metaphysics of Biology.

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