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xx Preface to the First Edition and you have a narrative. Historians, rightly, want to see actual historical influences, and the ...

Preface to the First Edition xxi in various guises, resemblances recur, and it is almost impossible to identify exactly who is w ...

xxii Preface to the First Edition number of roles to play in classification. Fixity of species was invented by John Ray in the s ...

xxiii Preface to the Second Edition He who ventures to write on the origin of species, ought to define what a species is, so oug ...

xxiv Preface to the Second Edition Arthur O. Lovejoy once referred to the inquiry of philosophical semantics.^7 It is this inqui ...

xxv Acknowledgments FIRST EDITION This book has taken me the better part of a decade to write, and I have done so with the aid o ...

xxvi Acknowledgments (www. archive. org), Botanicus (www.botanicus.org), and the Complete Works of Charles Darwin project (darwi ...

xxvii Author John S. Wilkins earned his PhD at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He has researched and taught at the Unive ...

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xxix Prologue THE RECEIVED VIEW Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the ...

xxx Prologue idealism were less essentialistic than the Received View indicated, a view in part revised by Hull himself.^17 The ...

Prologue xxxi Ernst Mayr is someone whose ideas and narratives have been extremely inu- ential, and therefore with whom we will ...

xxxii Prologue years of stasis,”^36 he presented the Received View, in part relying on Joseph’s book,^37 in part on Mayr and Sim ...

Prologue xxxiii and universals, and the Renaissance. Are we to think that there was no change or development in these ideas in t ...

xxxiv Prologue on prior work (although I keep nding people expressing the view that logical spe- cies are individuals; for exam ...

Prologue xxxv This is an essay in the history of ideas (although conceptual history is prefer- able), and in particular the idea ...

xxxvi Prologue Bauhin, Cesalpino, and John Ray, this lineal descendency must therefore be taken as an approximation. With that c ...

Prologue xxxvii Ghiselin, Michael T. 1966. On psychologism in the logic of taxonomic controversies. Systematic Zoology 15:207–21 ...

xxxviii Prologue Millikan, Ruth Garrett. 1984. Language, Thought, and Other Biological Categories: New Foundations for Realism. ...

Section I The Historical Development of “Species” ...