『Biological Classification: A Philosophical Introduction』

Richard Richards

(2016年9月刊行,Cambridge University Press[Series: Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy and Biology], Cambridge, x+302 pp., ISBN:9781107065376 [hbk] / ISBN:9781107687844 [pbk])

生物分類学の哲学入門.

【目次】
List of Illustrations viii
Acknowledgments ix


Introduction 1
1. Why Classify? 6
2. The Aristotelian Framework 36
3. The Darwinian Pivot 64
4. Evolutionary Taxonomy and the Cladistic Challenge 101
5. The Tree of Life 146
6. The Species Problem 178
7. The Metaphysics of Biological Classification 209
8. Theory and the World 243
9. The Essential Tension 276


References 287
Index 299