Discusses the evolving specie
Table of Contents
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1. THE SPECIES PROBLEM: IN BROAD STROKES ON A CONCEPTUAL HISTORICAL CANVAS
1.1. Developing cognitive situation
1.1.1. Structure of cognitive situation
1.1.2. Species, species concept, species problem
1.2. History on a conceptualistic account
1.3. A historical narrative of the species problem
CHAPTER 2. ANTIQUE NATURAL PHILOSOPHY: SPECIES AS EIDOS
2.1. Classical period: the birth of genos and eidos
2.1.1. Plato’s eidology
2.1.2. Aristotle’s ousiology
2.1.3. Aristotelian polysemy: the problem arises
2.1.4. Theophrastus’ Enquiry into Plants
2.2. Neoplatonists: Porphyry's questions
CHAPTER 3. THE MIDDLE AGES: SPECIES AS UNIVERSALIA
3.1. An eve of scholasticism: the beginning of genus and species
3.2. Realism: species really exists
3.3. Conceptualism: species concept refers to something real
3.4. Nominalism: species concept refers to nothing real
3.5. Genus-species scheme
CHAPTER 4. THE RENAISSANCE AND THE EARLY MODERN TIMES: SPECIES AS CLASSIFICATION UNIT
4.1. The Renaissance turn and the "second" scholasticism
4.2. The early Modern Times: natural-classificatory dualism
4.3. The origin of systematics: species of the living
4.3.1. Herbal epoch as a precursor
4.3.2. From Cesalpino to Ray: a scholastic legacy
4.3.3. Tournefort and Linnaeus: disconnection of genus and species
4.3.4. Adanson, Jussieu, etc.: the birth of natural systematics
4.3.5. "Ladderists" against "Systemists"
CHAPTER 5. THE MODERN TIMES: SPECIES AS BIOLOGICAL UNIT
5.1. The forerunners: initial routs of objectivation of biological species
5.1.1. Biblical motifs
5.1.2. Generative idea
5.2. The 19th century and beyond: biologization of the species problem
5.2.1. Evolutionary idea: species as an actor of biological evolution
5.2.2. Ecological idea: species as a component of ecosystem
5.3. Biosystematics and others: fall and rise of species
5.4. "Multiplication of essences": the kinds of species
CHAPTER 6. THE CONTEMPORARY: THE NEWEST ISSUES
6.1. Species definition: a conceptual pyramid
6.2. Species ontology: new questions
6.3. The "new essentialism": an evolving specieshood?
6.4. If not species, then what?
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