Biological Natural Kinds: A Bibliography
(Courtesy of the AHRC Metaphysics of Science Project)
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Ghiselin, M. (2002), 'Species Concepts : The Basis for Controversy and Reconciliation', Fish and
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Hull, D. L. (1982), 'Exemplars and Scientific Change', PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting
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Hull, D. L. (1981), 'Kitts and Kitts and Caplan on Species', Philosophy of Science 48(1), 141-152.
Hull, D. L. (1980), 'The Herd as a Means', PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the
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Hull, D. L. (1978), 'A Matter of Individuality', Philosophy of Science 45(3), 335--360.
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Keeley, B. L. (2000), 'Shocking Lessons from Electric Fish: The Theory and Practice of Multiple
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Kitcher, P. (1999), 'Essence and Perfection', Ethics 110(1), 59--83.
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Kitcher, P. (1989), Some Puzzles About Species, in M. Ruse, ed.,'What the Philosophy of
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Kitcher, P. (1985), 'Narrow Taxonomy and Wide Functionalism', Philosophy of Science 52(1),
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Kitcher, P. (1984), 'Species', Philosophy of Science 51(2), 308--333.
Kitcher, P. (1984), '1953 and all That. A Tale of Two Sciences', The Philosophical Review 93(3),
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LaPorte, J. (1997), 'Essential Membership', Philosophy of Science 64(1), 96--112.
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LaPorte, J. (1996), 'Chemical Kind Term Reference and the Discovery of Essence', Nous 30(1),
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Simpson, G. G. (1961), Principles of Animal Taxonomy, Columbia University Press, New York.
Smith, H. (1990), 'The Universal Species Concept', Herpetologica 46, 122--4.
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Sober, E. (1984), 'Sets, Species, and Evolution: Comments on Philip Kitcher's"Species"',
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Sober, E. (1980), 'Evolution, Population Thinking, and Essentialism', Philosophy of Science
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Splitter, L. J. (1988), 'Species and Identity', Philosophy of Science 55(3), 323--348.
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Walsh, D. M. (2006), 'Evolutionary Essentialism', British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
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Walsh, D. M. (2000), 'Chasing shadows: natural selection and adaptation', Studies in History and
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Wiley, E. O. (1978), 'The Evolutionary Species Concept Reconsidered', Systematic Zoology 27,
17--26.
Wilkerson, T. (1995), Natural Kinds, Ashgate Publishing Ltd..
Wilkerson, T. (1988), 'Natural Kinds', Philosophy 63, 29-42.
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Wilkerson, T. E. (1993), 'Species, Essences and the Names of Natural Kinds', The Philosophical
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Wilson, J. A. (2000), 'Ontological Butchery: Organism Concepts and Biological Generalizations',
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Wilson, M. (1982), 'Predicate Meets Property', The Philosophical Review 91(4), 549--589.
Wilson, R. A. (1999), Species: new interdisciplinary essays, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
Wilson, R. A. (1996), 'Promiscuous Realism', The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
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