Species Problems and Beyond: Contemporary Issues in Philosophy and Practice

ISBN-13: 9780367425371 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 392 str.

Wilkins, John S.

Opis

This book presents opposing views on the current philosophical and conceptual issues of the Species Problem in biology. Topics include ontology of species, definitions of species category and units, species rank, speciation issues, nomenclature, ecology, and species conservation.

Spis treści

Section 1. Concepts and theories 1. We Are Nearly Ready to Begin the Species Problem　2. Is the Species Problem　That　Important?　3. ‘Species’ as a technical term: Multiple meanings in practice, one idea in theory　4. What　Should　Species Be? Taxonomic Inflation and the Ethics of Splitting and Lumping　5. The Good Species　Section 2. Practice and methods 6. Species in the Time of Big Data: The Multi-species Coalescent, the General Lineage Concept, and Species Delimitation　7.　Species delimitation using molecular data　8. Taxonomic order, disorder and governance　Section 3. Ranks and trees and names 9. Ecology, evolution, and systematics in a post-species world　10. The species before and after Linnaeus – tension between disciplinary nomadism and conservative nomenclature　11. Taxonomic hierarchies as a tool for coping with the complexity of biodiversity　Section 4. Metaphysics and epistemologies 12. The species problem from a conceptualist’s viewpoint　13. (Some) Species are Processes　14. Metaphysical presuppositions about species stability: problematic and unavoidable　15. Critique of taxonomic reason(ing): nature’s joints in light of an ‘Honest’ Species Concept and Kurt Hubner’s　historistic　philosophy of science　Afterword 16. Continuing After Species: An Afterword