Species Concept Books

Allmon, W.D. & Yacobucci, M.M. (eds). 2016. Species and Speciation in the Fossil Record. University of Chicago Press.

Cain, A.J., 2014. Animal Species and Their Evolution (Vol. 162). Princeton University Press.

Campbell, J.K., O'Rourke, M. & Slater, M.H. (eds). 2011. Carving Nature at its Joints: Natural Kinds in Metaphysics and Science. MIT Press.

Claridge, M.F., Dawah, H.A. & Wilson, M.R. (eds). 1997. Species: The Units of Biodiversity. Chapman and Hall Ltd.

Davies, R. 2020. Natural and Artifactual Objects in Contemporary Metaphysics: Exercises in Analytic Ontology. Bloomsbury Publishing.

Ereshefsky, M. 1992. The Units of Evolution: Essays on the Nature of Species. MIT Press.

Ereshefsky, M. 2000. The Poverty of the Linnaean Hierarchy: A Philosophical Study of Biological Taxonomy. Cambridge University Press.

Erwin, D.H., Anstey, R.L. & Anstey, R. (eds). 1995. New Approaches to Speciation in the Fossil Record. Columbia University Press.

Ghiselin, M.T. 1997. Metaphysics and the Origin of Species. SUNY Press.

Gregg, J. R. 1954. The Language of Taxonomy. Columbia University Press.

Hey, J. 2001. Genes, Categories, and Species: The Evolutionary and Cognitive Cause of the Species Problem. Oxford University Press.

Howard, D.J. & Berlocher, S.H. (eds). 1998. Endless Forms. Oxford University Press.

Kimbel, W.H. & Martin, L.B. (eds). 2013. Species, Species Concepts and Primate Evolution. Springer Science & Business Media.

Kunz, W. 2013. Do Species Exist?: Principles of taxonomic classification. John Wiley & Sons.

Lherminier, P. 2009. Le Mythe de l'Espèce. Ellipses.

Lherminier, P. 2018. Comprendre la Notion d'Espèce. Ellipses.

Löther, R. 1972. Die Beherrschung der Mannigfaltigkeit: philosophische Grundlagen der Taxonomie [Mastery of Diversity: Philosophical Foundations of Taxonomy]. G. Fischer.

Mishler, B.D. 2021. What, if Anything, are Species? Taylor & Francis.

Otte, D. & Endler, J.A. (ed). 1989. Speciation and its Consequences. Sinauer.

Paterson, H.E. & McEvey, S.F. (eds). 1993. Evolution and the Recognition Concept of Species: Collected Writings. Johns Hopkins University Press.

Pavlinov, I.Y. (ed). 2013. The Species Problem: Ongoing Issues. BoD–Books on Demand.

Pavlinov, I.Y. 2021. Biological Systematics: History and Theory. CRC Press.

Pavlinov, I.Y. 2021. Taxonomic Nomenclature: What's in a Name–Theory and History. CRC Press.

Pavlinov, I.Y. 2023. The Species Problem: A Conceptual History. CRC Press.

Reydon, T. 2005. Species as Units of Generalization in Biological Science: a philosophical analysis (Doctoral dissertation, Leiden University).

Richards, R.A. 2010. The Species Problem: A Philosophical Analysis. Cambridge University Press.

Richards, R.A. 2016. Biological Classification. Cambridge University Press.

Sigwart, J.D. 2018. What Species Mean: A User's Guide to the Units of Biodiversity. CRC Press.

Slater, M.H. 2016. Are Species Real?: An Essay on the Metaphysics of Species. Springer.

Stamos, D.N. 2003. The Species Problem: Biological Species, Ontology, and the Metaphysics of Biology. Lexington Books.

Sylvester-Bradley, P. (ed). 1956. The Species Concept in Palaeontology. Systematics Association.

Vrba, E.S. (ed). 1985. Species and Speciation. Transvaal Museum Monographs, 4(1).

Wheeler, Q.D. & Meier, R. (eds). 2000. Species Concepts and Phylogenetic Theory: A Debate. Columbia University Press.

Wilkins, J. & Ebach, M. 2013. The Nature of Classification: Relationships and Kinds in the Natural Sciences. Springer.

Wilkins, J.S. 2009. Defining Species: A Sourcebook From Antiquity to Today (Vol. 203). Peter Lang.

Wilkins, J.S. 2009. Species: A History of the Idea. University of California Press.

Wilkins, J.S., Zachos, F.E. & Pavlinov, I.Y. (eds). 2022. Species Problems and Beyond: Contemporary Issues in Philosophy and Practice. CRC Press.

Wilkins, J. S. 2023. Understanding Species. Cambridge University Press.

Wilson, R.A. (ed). 1999. Species: New Interdisciplinary Essays. MIT Press

Winston, J.E. 1999. Describing Species: Practical Taxonomic Procedure for Biologists. Columbia University Press.

Zachos, F.E. (ed). 2016. Species Concepts in Biology (Vol. 801). Springer.

Zakharov, B. P. 2013. Nomosystematics: A Closer Look at the Theoretical Foundation of Biological Classification. Siri Scientific Press.

Черных, В.В. 1986. Проблема целостности высших таксонов: точка зрения палеонтолога. Наука. [Chernykh, V.V., 1986. The Problem of the Integrity of Higher Taxa: A Paleontologist's Point of View. Nauka.]