The Species Problem

The main goal of Richard Richards’s The Species Problem is "a comprehensive \nphilosophical understanding of the species problem: the use of multiple and \ninconsistent species concepts that group and divide biodiversity in conflicting \nways" (205). The goal of comprehensiveness leads Richards into a wide-ranging \nbook with contributions to ancient philosophy, the history of biology, Darwin \nscholarship, the philosophy of biology, metaphysics, the philosophy of language, \nand other subdisciplines. While I do not agree with the main conclusion of \nthe book, I do believe that Richards has succeeded in providing helpful introductions \nto a number of different topics and persuasively arguing that these \ntopics are intimately related. \n \n

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