Konsep spesies telah memainkan peran utama dalam biologi evolusi dan filsafat biologi, dan telah menjadi fokus sejumlah buku dalam beberapa tahun terakhir. Buku ini berbeda dari koleksi terbaru lainnya dalam dua hal. Buku ini lebih eksplisit integratif dan analitis, berpusat pada isu-isu penting secara umum seperti pluralisme dan realisme tentang spesies. Buku ini juga mengacu pada berbagai dis…
"A Bradford book."These essays draw on work in the history and philosophy of science, the philosophy of mind and language, the development of concepts in children, conceptual change in adults, and reasoning in human and artificial systems.Explanations seem to be a large and natural part of our cognitive lives. As Frank Keil and Robert Wilson write, "When a cognitive activity is so ubiquitous th…
Part science and part social movement, eugenics emerged in the late nineteenth century as a tool for human improvement. In response to perceived threats of criminality, moral degeneration, feeble-mindedness, and "the rising tide of color," eugenic laws and social policies aimed to better the human race by regulating reproductive choice through science and technology. In this book, Rob Wilson ex…
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The concept of species has played a central role in both evolutionary biology and the philosophy of biology, and has been the focus of a number of books in recent years. This book differs from other recent collections in two ways. It is more explicitly integrative and analytical, centering on issues of general significance such as pluralism and realism about species. It also draws on a broader …