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Species concepts, individuality, and objectivity

Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Year
1987
Tongue
English
Weight
947 KB
Volume
2
Category
Article
ISSN
0169-3867

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โœฆ Synopsis

Treating species as individuals makes it feasible to treat all the sciences from a unitary philosophical point of view. It clarifies the roles of history and laws of nature. Psychologism may prevent classification systems from meeting the criteria of scientific objectivity. Classification is not based upon putting similars together, but upon a scientific understanding of the objects classified. Biological species definitions can be treated coherently as reproductive communities, which are composite wholes, or individuals. Evolutionary species definitions, which treat species as ecological entities, are incoherent mixtures of individuals and classes, and have an undesirable subjective character. Species are ecological units only insofar as they affect the ecological aspects of reproduction.

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