Boucher Sandy C
The University of New England, School of Humanities, University of New England, Armidale NSW 2351, Australia.
Stud Hist Philos Biol Biomed Sci. 2017 Apr;62:25-34. doi: 10.1016/j.shpsc.2017.02.004. Epub 2017 Mar 8.
Stephen Jay Gould's views on the ontology of species were an important plank of his revisionist program in evolutionary theory. In this paper I cast a critical eye over those views. I focus on three central aspects of Gould's views on species: the relation between the Darwinian and the metaphysical notions of individuality, the relation between the ontology of species and macroevolution, and the issue of contextualism and conventionalism about the metaphysics of species.
斯蒂芬·杰伊·古尔德关于物种本体论的观点是他在进化理论中修正主义计划的重要组成部分。在本文中，我对这些观点进行了批判性审视。我聚焦于古尔德关于物种观点的三个核心方面：达尔文主义的个体概念与形而上学的个体概念之间的关系、物种本体论与宏观进化之间的关系，以及关于物种形而上学的情境主义和约定主义问题。
