Matthew H. Slater

Gebundenes Buch

Are Species Real?

An Essay on the Metaphysics of Species

Beschreibung

What are species? Are they objective features of the world? If so, what sort of features are they? Slater presents a novel approach to these questions, aiming to accommodating the attractions to both realism and antirealism about species.

Autor

Matthew Slater is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Bucknell University, USA, having received his Ph.D. from Columbia University. He has co-edited such volumes as Carving Nature at its Joints, The Environment, and Reference and Referring and writes on issues in the philosophy of science and metaphysics.

Produktdetails

• New Directions in the Philosophy of Science
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-230-39324-0
• 2013 edition
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 145mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 413g
• ISBN-13: 9780230393240
• ISBN-10: 0230393241
• Artikelnr.: 39092511