New edited species book 19 Oct 202119 Oct 2021 So, what have I been doing for the Covid Lockdown. Many things. This is one of them. The CRC Press link is here, but I’ll give the table of contents below. The beautiful cover art is by Scott Partridge, an artist in North Carolina. It is entitled Abyssal Zone. Table of Contents Section 1. Concepts and theories Chapter 1. We Are Nearly Ready to Begin the Species Problem—Matthew J. Barker Chapter 2. Is the Species Problem That Important?—Yuichi Amitani Chapter 3. ‘Species’ as a technical term: Multiple meanings in practice, one idea in theory—Thomas A.C. Reydon Chapter 4. What Should Species Be? Taxonomic Inflation and the Ethics of Splitting and Lumping—Jay Odenbaugh Chapter 5. The Good Species—John S. Wilkins Section 2. Practice and methods Chapter 6. Species in the Time of Big Data: The Multi-species Coalescent, the General Lineage Concept, and Species Delimitation—Aleta Quinn Chapter 7. Species delimitation using molecular data—Megan L. Smith, Bryan C. Carstens Chapter 8. Taxonomic order, disorder and governance—Stijn Conix, Stephen T. Garnett, Frank E. Zachos, Les Christidis Section 3. Ranks and trees and names Chapter 9. Ecology, evolution, and systematics in a post-species world—Brent D. Mishler Chapter 10. The species before and after Linnaeus – tension between disciplinary nomadism and conservative nomenclature—Alessandro Minelli Chapter 11. Taxonomic hierarchies as a tool for coping with the complexity of biodiversity—Julia D. Sigwart Section 4. Metaphysics and epistemologies Chapter 12. The species problem from a conceptualist’s viewpoint—Igor Ya. Pavlinov Chapter 13. (Some) Species are Processes—John Dupré Chapter 14. Metaphysical presuppositions about species stability: problematic and unavoidable—Catherine Kendig Chapter 15. Critique of taxonomic reason(ing): nature’s joints in light of an ‘Honest’ Species Concept and Kurt Hübner’s historistic philosophy of science—Frank E. Zachos Afterword Chapter 16. Continuing After Species: An Afterword—Robert A. Wilson Book Epistemology Metaphysics Natural Classification Philosophy Science Speciation Speciation Theory Species and systematics Species concept
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