The Nature of Classification
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-34515-1 (ISBN)
John S. Wilkins is Honorary Fellow at the University of Melbourne, and Associate Fellow at the University of Sydney, Australia. He works on evolution and religion, the philosophy of taxonomy, and the history of biology. He has published on cognition, cultural evolution, the philosophy of science, and on science communication. Malte C. Ebach is Senior Lecturer in Biogeography at the University of New South Wales, Australia, and has published on systematic and biogeographical theory and methods. He is an editor for the Journal of Biogeography, Zootaxa and Editor-in-Chief of the Species and Systematics book series.
Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Nature of Science 2. Nature and Classification 3. Scientific Classification 4. Homology and Analogy 5. Monsters and Misclassifications 6. Observation, Theory and Domains 7. Radistics: A Neutral Terminology 8. Worth the Knowing Bibliography Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 26.05.2016 |
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Zusatzinfo | X, 197 p. |
Verlagsort | Basingstoke |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
Themenwelt | Schulbuch / Wörterbuch |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution | |
Sozialwissenschaften | |
Schlagworte | Analogy • Natural science • philosophy of science • Science |
ISBN-10 | 1-349-34515-6 / 1349345156 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-349-34515-1 / 9781349345151 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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