For Pluralism and against Realism about Species

I argue for accepting a pluralist approach to species, while rejecting the realism about species espoused by P. Kitcher and a number of other philosophers of biology. I develop an alternative view of species concepts as divisions of organisms into groups for study which are relative to the systemati...

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Cognitive space
Epistemology. Philosophy of science. Theory of knowledge
Genetic hybridization
Hybridity
Philosophical realism
Philosophy
Pluralist school
Population ecology
Speciation
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