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Dear taxacomers,
 
I am happy to announce a new book (of mine) on the history and theory of systematics to be published by The CRC Press in several months:  https://www.routledge.com/Biological-Systematics-History-And-Theory/Pavlinov/p/book/9780367654450  
 
Its contents is below:
 
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1 A Brief Introduction to Systematics
1.1 What is the Natural System?
1.2 What is Biological Systematics?
1.2.1 The Structure of Systematics
1.2.2 What Does Systematics Study?
1.2.3 How Does Systematics Study?
1.2.4 Why Does Systematics Study?
Chapter 2 Conceptual History of Systematics
2.1 Some Preliminary Considerations
2.1.1 How a Conceptual History of Systematics can be Written
2.1.2 History of Systematics as an Evolutionary Process
2.1.3 Major Stages of the Conceptual History of Systematics
2.2 Prehistory of Systematics
2.2.1 An Initial Step: Folk Systematics
2.2.2 Becoming Aware of the Method
2.2.3 The Herbal Epoch
2.3 The Beginning of Systematics: Scholastic Revolution
2.3.1 Major Features
2.3.2 Major Stages
2.4 Emergence of Biological Systematics: Anti-Scholastic Revolution
2.4.1 Major Non-Scholastic Motives
2.4.2 The Natural Systematics
2.4.3 The Origin of Typology
2.4.4 “Taxonomic Esotericism”
2.5 A Step Forward: Evolutionary Revolution
2.5.1 First Ideas
2.5.2 First Debates
2.6 A Step Aside: Positivist Revolution
2.7 Homage to Metaphysics: Post-Positivist Revolution
Chapter 3 Some Philosophical Considerations
3.1 Classical and Non-Classical Science
3.2 Cognitive Situation
3.2.1 Cognitive Triangle
3.2.2 Conceptual Space
3.2.3 Conceptual Pyramid
3.3 Some Cognitive Regulators
3.3.1 Between  Umgebung  and  Umwelts
3.3.2 Between Holism and Reductionism
3.3.3 Between Realism and Nominalism
3.3.4 Between Monism and Pluralism
3.4 Knowledge as an Information Model
3.5 The Logical Bases
3.6 Argumentation Schemes
3.7 Methodologies and Methods
3.7.1 Scientific Status of Methodologies and Methods
3.7.2 Basic Methods
Chapter 4 An Outline of Taxonomic Theory
4.1 Taxonomic Theory as a Quasi-Axiomatics
4.1.1 General and Particular Taxonomic Theories
4.1.2 Basic Quasi-Axioms and Principles
4.2 Defining Basic Notions: Two Case Studies
4.2.1 Taxonomic Reality
4.2.2 Classification System
Chapter 5 Major Research Programs in Systematics
5.1 The Phenetic Program
5.2 Rational Systematics
5.2.1 The Onto-Rational Program
5.2.2 The Episto-Rational Program
5.3 The Numerical Program
5.3.1 Major Features
5.3.2 Two Basic Versions
5.3.3 Basic Controversies
5.4 The Typological Program
5.4.1 Major Features
5.4.2 Contemporary Developments
5.5 The Biomorphic Program
5.6 The Biosystematic Program
5.7 The Phylogenetic Program
5.7.1 Major Features
5.7.2 Evolutionary Taxonomy
5.7.3 Cladistic Systematics
5.8 The Evolutionary Ontogenetic Program?
Chapter 6 Taxonomic Puzzles
6.1 Between Natural and Artificial Classifications
6.2 Between Taxon and Character
6.3 Hierarchies: To Rank or Not to Rank?
6.4 Between Similarity and Kinship
6.5 What is the (Arche)Type?
6.6 Homology, an Unresolved Problem
6.7 An Undiscoverable Essence of Species?
References
Index
 
By the way, I’m preparing now a similar book on taxonomic nomenclature. The recent discussion around  Drop bear  initiated by me appeared to be interesing by leading to a very important issue concerning «reality» of taxa to which the names are assigned. In fact, Linnaeus wrote about genera and species as «works of Nature» opposed to orders and classes as «works of Nature and Art» and addressed his nomenclature aphorisms to the former. A. de Candolle Jr. in his Nomenclature Laws, and W.H. Dall in his AA Code draft both wrote about «natural groups», J. Bentham wrote about «true genera» in his Kew Rule, phylocoders recognize clades as the only «real» entities to be recognized and named. So, all this is a good example illustrating (to me as a conceptualist) an important connection between taxonomic theory, in which «naturalness» of taxa is considered, and taxonomic nomenclature ruling the names of these taxa.
 
Cheers,
 
Igor
 
 
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Igor Ya. Pavlinov, DrS
Zoological Museum of Lomonosov Moscow State University
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125009 Moscow
Russia
http://zmmu.msu.ru/personal/pavlinov/pavlinov1.htm  
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