Carving nature at its joints: natural kinds in metaphysics and science

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Cambridge, MA, USA: MIT Press (2011)
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Are there natural kinds of things around which our theories cut? The essays in this volume offer reflections by a distinguished group of philosophers on a series of intertwined issues in the metaphysics and epistemology of classification.

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Q175.32.N38.C37 2011

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9780262015936   0262015935   9780262516266   0262516268
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Arthritis and Nature's Joints.Neil E. Williams
Introduction: Lessons from the Scientific Butchery.Matthew H. Slater & Andrea Borghini
Lange and laws, kinds, and counterfactuals.Alexander Bird
Natural Kinds and Biological Realisms.Michael Devitt
2 Induction, Samples, and Kinds.  (pages 33)Peter Godfrey-Smith
3 It Takes More Than All Kinds to Make a World.  (pages 53)Marc Lange
Are Fundamental Laws Necessary or Contingent?  (pages 97-112)Noa Latham
Boundaries, Conventions, and Realism.  (pages 129–153)Achille C. Varzi
Three ways of resisting essentialism about natural kinds.  (pages 175--97)Bence Nanay
11 Predicting Populations by Modeling Individuals.  (pages 231)Bruce Glymour
Species Concepts and Natural Goodness.  (pages 289)Judith K. Crane & Ronald Sandler
How to think about the free will/determinism problem.  (pages 314--340)Kadri Vihvelin

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