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Behavioral and Brain Sciences

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Volume 4 - Issue 2 - June 1981

Open Peer Commentary

Pick your poison: Historicism, essentialism, and emergentism in the definition of species

Rethinking categories and life

Individuality and comparative biology

Universals, particulars, and paradigms

Metaphysics and common usage

‘Species-typicality’: Can individuals have typical parts?

Categorization and affordances

Natural categories and natural concepts

What does Ghiselin mean by “individual”?

Units “of” selection: The end of “of”?

Taxonomy is older than thinking: Epigenetic decisions

The demise of mental representations

Typologies: Obstacles and opportunities in scientific change

Species as individuals: Logical, biological, and philosophical problems

The world represented as a hierarchy of nature may not require “species”

Natural kinds

The metaphysics of individuality and its consequences for systematic biology

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Taxa, life, and thinking

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Dalbir Bindra (1922–1980)

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