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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...

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Otros Autores: Slater, Matthew H., 1977- (Editor ), O'Rourke, Michael, 1963- (Editor ), Campbell, Joseph Keim, 1958- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2011]
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505 0 0 |t Introduction : lessons from the scientific butchery /  |r Matthew H. Slater and Andrea Borghini --  |t Induction, samples, and kinds /  |r Peter Godfrey-Smith --  |t It takes more than all kinds to make a world /  |r Alexander Bird --  |t Lange and laws, kinds, and counterfactuals /  |r Alexander Bird --  |t Are fundamental laws necessary or contingent? /  |r Noa Latham --  |t Para-natural kinds /  |r Roy Sorensen --  |t Boundaries, conventions, and realism /  |r Achille C. Varzi --  |t Natural kinds and biological realisms /  |r Michael Devitt --  |t Three ways of resisting essentialism about natural kinds /  |r Bence Nanay --  |t Arthritis and nature's joints /  |r Neil E. Williams --  |t Predicting populations by modeling individuals /  |r Bruce Glymour --  |t Similarity and species concepts /  |r Jason G. Rheins --  |t Species concepts and natural goodness /  |r Judith K. Crane and Ronald Sandler --  |t How to think about the free will/determinism problem /  |r Kadri Vihvelin. 
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