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The Semantics and Metaphysics of Natural Kinds.
Essentialism--roughly, the view that natural kinds have discrete essences, generating truths that are necessary but knowable only a posteriori--is an increasingly popular view in the metaphysics of science. At the same time, philosophers of language have been subjecting Kripke's views about the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor & Francis,
2010.
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| Colección: | Routledge Studies in Metaphysics, v. 1.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Rigidity, Natural Kind Terms, and Metasemantics; 3 General Terms as Designators: A Defence of The View; 4 Are Natural Kind Terms Special?; 5 The Commonalities between Proper Names and Natural Kind Terms: A Fregean Perspective; 6 Theoretical Identity Statements, Their Truth, and Their Discovery; 7 Discovering the Essences of Natural Kinds; 8 The Elements and Conceptual Change; 9 On the Abuse of the Necessary A Posteriori; 10 Crosscutting Natural Kinds and the Hierarchy Thesis.
- 11 From Constitutional Necessities to Causal Necessities12 Realism, Natural Kinds, and Philosophical Methods; Contributors; Index.