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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Keywords | Naturalism Science Philosophy Philosophy of nature Metaphysics |
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Call number | Q175.32.N38.C37 2011 |
ISBN(s) | 9780262516266 0262015935 9780262015936 0262516268 |
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