Discussing the generally ignored issue of the classification of natural objects in the philosophy of science, this book focuses on knowledge and social relations, and offers a way to understand classification as a necessary aspect of doing science.
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Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Nature of Science 2. Nature and Classification 3. Scientific Classification 4. Homology and Analogy 5. Monsters and Misclassifications 6. Observation, Theory and Domains 7. Radistics: A Neutral Terminology 8. Worth the Knowing Bibliography IndexSobre el autor
John S. Wilkins is Honorary Fellow at the University of Melbourne, and Associate Fellow at the University of Sydney, Australia. He works on evolution and religion, the philosophy of taxonomy, and the history of biology. He has published on cognition, cultural evolution, the philosophy of science, and on science communication.Malte C. Ebach is Senior Lecturer in Biogeography at the University of New South Wales, Australia, and has published on systematic and biogeographical theory and methods. He is an editor for the
Journal of Biogeography, Zootaxa and Editor-in-Chief of the
Species and Systematics book series.
Idioma Inglés ● Formato PDF ● Páginas 197 ● ISBN 9781137318121 ● Tamaño de archivo 2.2 MB ● Editorial Palgrave Macmillan UK ● Ciudad London ● País GB ● Publicado 2013 ● Descargable 24 meses ● Divisa EUR ● ID 3368682 ● Protección de copia DRM social