The Hierarchies in Biological Systematics

About the Author

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1 A Historical Consideration

1.1 A Brief Overview

1.2 The Roots: Folk Systematics

1.3 The Antique Hierarchical Systems

1.4 Toward the Deductive Genus-Species Scheme

1.5 The Development of Ranked Taxonomic Hierarchy

1.6 Against Taxonomic Hierarchy and/or Its Ranking

1.7 A Brief History of Meronomic Hierarchies

Chapter 2 Some Philosophical Considerations

2.1 The Hierarchical Structure of Cognitive Situation

2.2 The Hierarchies of Reduction Cascades

2.3 Some Comments on the Notions and Definitions

2.4 The Pyramids of Reasoning: Logics, Methodologies, and Methods

2.5 The Hierarchies of Taxonomic Theories

2.6 On the Objectivity and Subjectivity of Hierarchies and Ranks

2.7 The Importance of Being a System

2.8 A Few Words About Structuralism

Chapter 3 The Hierarchies as They Are

3.1 Basic Features of Hierarchies

3.2 More on Onto-Epistemic Dualism of Hierarchies

3.3 The Hierarchies Topology

3.4 Levelism

3.5 Fuzzy Hierarchies

3.6 Hierarchization of Classification Systems

3.7 To Rank or Not to Rank: The Contemporary Debates

Chapter 4 The Hierarchies Representations

4.1 The Text-Like Style

4.2 The Tree-Like Style

4.3 The Plane-Like Style

4.4 From Classifications to Representations and Back Again

Chapter 5 Two Important Conceptual Pyramids: Species and Homology

5.1 The Species Problem

5.2 The Homology Problem

Chapter 6 Taxonomic Hierarchy and Nomenclature

6.1 Taxonomic Theory and Nomenclature

6.2 The Hierarchies of Regulative Nomenclature

6.3 Rank-Dependent Nomenclature

6.4 Rank-Independent Nomenclature

References

Index