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Biological Systematics: History and Theory
Preface
What Is the Natural System?
What Is Biological Systematics?
The Structure of Systematics
What Does Systematics Study?
How Does Systematics Study?
Why Does Systematics Study?
Conceptual History of Systematics
Some Preliminary Considerations
How a Conceptual History of Systematics Can Be Written
History of Systematics as an Evolutionary Process
Major Stages of the Conceptual History of Systematics
Prehistory of Systematics
An Initial Step: Folk Systematics
Becoming Aware of the Method
The Herbal Epoch
The Beginning of Systematics: Scholastic Revolution
Major Features
Major Stages
Emergence of Biological Systematics: Anti-Scholastic Revolution
Major Non-Scholastic Motives
The Natural Systematics
The Origin of Typology
“Taxonomic Esotericism”
A Step Forward: Evolutionary Revolution
First Ideas
First Debates
A Step Aside: Positivist Revolution
Homage to Metaphysics: Post-Positivist Revolution
Some Philosophical Considerations
Classical and Non-Classical Science
Cognitive Situation
Cognitive Triangle
Conceptual Space
Conceptual Pyramid
Some Cognitive Regulators
Between Umgebung and Umwelts
Between Holism and Reductionism
Between Realism and Nominalism
Between Monism and Pluralism
Knowledge as an Information Model
The Logical Bases
Argumentation Schemes
Methodologies and Methods
Scientific Status of Methodologies and Methods
Basic Methods
An Outline of Taxonomic Theory
Taxonomic Theory as a Quasi-Axiomatics
General and Particular Taxonomic Theories
Basic Quasi-Axioms and Principles
Defining Basic Notions: Two Case Studies
Taxonomic Reality
Classification System
Major Research Programs in Systematics
The Phenetic Program
Rational Systematics
The Onto-Rational Program
The Episto-Rational Program
The Numerical Program
Major Features
Two Basic Versions
Basic Controversies
The Typological Program
Major Features
Contemporary Developments
The Biomorphic Program
The Biosystematic Program
The Phylogenetic Program
Major Features
Evolutionary Taxonomy
Cladistic Systematics
The Evolutionary Ontogenetic Program?
Taxonomic Puzzles
Between Natural and Artificial Classifications
Between Taxon and Character
Hierarchies: To Rank or Not to Rank?
Between Similarity and Kinship
What Is the (Arche)Type?
Homology, an Unresolved Problem
An Undiscoverable Essence of Species?
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