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.

Author: Matthew H. Slater
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 10/30/2013
Pages: 214
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.70w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780230393240

Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2014 pg. 272

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.