caa a22 4500 605475229 CHVBK 20210128100351.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10516-014-9244-9 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10516-014-9244-9 Biodiversity Surgery: Some Epistemological Challenges in Facing Extinction [Elektronische Daten] [Elena Casetta, Jorge Marques da Silva] Biological conservation has a long story, but what distinguishes Conservation Biology from previous conservation fields is its multidisciplinary scope and its character as a mission-oriented crisis discipline. These characteristics suggested the introduction of the metaphor of biological conservation as a sort of surgery. This paper is about the initial stages of such surgery. Firstly, some data about the so-called "Big Sixth”—the disease—will be presented together with some information about Conservation Biology—the surgeon. Then epistemic and epistemological difficulties in extinction assessment and conservation prioritization, and triage in particular, will be pointed out. It will be argued that, while data deficiency arising from empirical and practical constraints can in principle be overcome, a different order of difficulties stems from the competition among several species concepts. In this case, it will be suggested that the extent of complications is of such significance to require a thorough re-assessment of the very nature of the patients, i.e., outside the metaphor, of the concept of species. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2014 Big Five nationallicence Biodiversity nationallicence Conservation biology nationallicence Extinction nationallicence IUCN nationallicence Species nationallicence Triage nationallicence Casetta Elena Centro de Filosofia das Ciências (CFCUL), Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal aut Marques da Silva Jorge Departamento de Biologia Vegetal e Centro de Biodiversidade, Genética Integrativa e Funcional, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal aut Axiomathes Springer Netherlands 25/3(2015-09-01), 239-251 1122-1151 25:3<239 2015 25 10516 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10516-014-9244-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10516-014-9244-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Casetta Elena Centro de Filosofia das Ciências (CFCUL), Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Marques da Silva Jorge Departamento de Biologia Vegetal e Centro de Biodiversidade, Genética Integrativa e Funcional, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Axiomathes Springer Netherlands 25/3(2015-09-01), 239-251 1122-1151 25:3<239 2015 25 10516