Matthew H. Slater 
Are Species Real? 
An Essay on the Metaphysics of Species

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.

Table of Content

Series Editor’s Foreword Preface and Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Natural Kinds 3. Essentialism 4. Individualism 5. Metaphysics of Species for the Commitment-Wary 6. The Natural Kindness Approach 7. Pluralism & Realism Revisited References Index

About the author

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.