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The traditional home for the concept of a natural kind in biology is of course taxonomy, the sorting of organisms into a nested hierarchy of kinds. Many taxonomists and most [...]

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996 John Dupre Department of Philosophy, Birkbeck College and School of English and American Studies, University of Exeter This book is a collection of essays by [...]

I am sympathetic to much of what Wilson says in his comments on promiscuous realism. The alternatives he offers to promiscuous realism as an account of biological kinds make serious [...]

Elliott Sober is among the leading contemporary contributors to the philosophy of biology. He also has an exceptional ability to explain difficult ideas clearly. He is therefore very well equipped [...]

John Watkins has suggested that the Baldwin effect should be rejected as covert Lamarckism. However, a non-Lamarckian interpretation of the effect can be given.