Taxonomy maturity

It is instructive to see what philosophers of biology consider as the major topics of their field nowadays, in a state of maturity as we can assume. For instance, take the table of contents of the recent anthology The Philosophy of Biology, ed. by David L. Hull and Michael Ruse, published by Oxford University Press in 1998 (see Table 1). It is a collection of 36 previous articles divided into 10 thematic sections. The first four sections are about metaphysical, methodological, and conceptual issues of evolutionary theory Section V is devoted to ontological issues in taxonomy. The... 

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