Carving Nature at its Joints: Natural Kinds in Metaphysics and Science
Cambridge, MA, USA: MIT Press (2011)
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Matthew Slater
Bucknell University
Michael O'Rourke
Michigan State University
Joe Campbell
Washington State University
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| Abstract |
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) | 9780262015936 0262015935 9780262516266 |
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