Typology reconfigured: From the metaphysics of essentialism to the epistemology of representation

Acta Biotheoretica

Volumn 57, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 51-75

  Love, Alan C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; Epistemology; Essentialism; Methodology; Natural kinds; Realism; Typology

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; CLASSIFICATION; TYPOLOGY;

ARTICLE; KNOWLEDGE; METAPHYSICS;

KNOWLEDGE; METAPHYSICS;

EID: 67651146836     PISSN: 00015342     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10441-008-9059-4     Document Type: Article

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