Category Archives: Species concept
A local talk
HPS book celebration at the University of Melbourne
Species-related publications
What’s a personal blog for, if not to blow my own horn? Well, it can only be to blow the horns of those who I…
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Operative concepts
Gave a talk “The Good Species” yesterday (26 April 2022) to the HPS crowd at UniMelb. The discussion went a way I didn’t expect: classification…
Posted by in Epistemology, Philosophy, science, Species and systematics, Species concept
John Ray on species fixity and race
For since in nature the number of species is fixed and determined, since ‘God on the sixth day rested from all his labour’, that is,…
Posted by in history, Quotes, Race and politics, Species concept
Do we need, and can we get, a single authoritative list of species?
In a recent paper, Garnett et al. [2020] have set up what they refer to as the principles for creating a single authoritative list of all…
Posted by in Biology, Philosophy, Species concept, Systematics
My species book receives a Choice award
I am delighted to tell you that my book Species: The Evolution of the Idea has received a 2019 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Title Award!…
Posted by in Philosophy, science, Species and systematics, Species concept
John Ray
This has been submitted as an entry in the Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science, and it is offered here for your delectation and delight… Title…