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Carving nature at its joints : natural kinds in metaphysics and science /
"Contemporary discussions of the success of science often invoke an ancient metaphor from Plato's Phaedrus: successful theories should 'carve nature at its joints.' But is nature really 'jointed'? Are there natural kinds of things around which our theories cut? The essa...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The MIT Press,
[2011]
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| Colección: | Topics in contemporary philosophy.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : lessons from the scientific butchery / Matthew H. Slater and Andrea Borghini
- Induction, samples, and kinds / Peter Godfrey-Smith
- It takes more than all kinds to make a world / Alexander Bird
- Lange and laws, kinds, and counterfactuals / Alexander Bird
- Are fundamental laws necessary or contingent? / Noa Latham
- Para-natural kinds / Roy Sorensen
- Boundaries, conventions, and realism / Achille C. Varzi
- Natural kinds and biological realisms / Michael Devitt
- Three ways of resisting essentialism about natural kinds / Bence Nanay
- Arthritis and nature's joints / Neil E. Williams
- Predicting populations by modeling individuals / Bruce Glymour
- Similarity and species concepts / Jason G. Rheins
- Species concepts and natural goodness / Judith K. Crane and Ronald Sandler
- How to think about the free will/determinism problem / Kadri Vihvelin.