Natural Categories and Human Kinds

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Beschreibung

The notion of 'natural kinds' has been central to contemporary discussions of metaphysics and philosophy of science. Although explicitly articulated by nineteenth-century philosophers like Mill, Whewell and Venn, it has a much older history dating back to Plato and Aristotle. In recent years, essentialism has been the dominant account of natural kinds among philosophers, but the essentialist view has encountered resistance, especially among naturalist metaphysicians and philosophers of science. Informed by detailed examination of classification in the natural and social sciences, this book argues against essentialism and for a naturalist account of natural kinds. By looking at case studies drawn from diverse scientific disciplines, from fluid mechanics to virology and polymer science to psychiatry, the author argues that natural kinds are nodes in causal networks. On the basis of this account, he maintains that there can be natural kinds in the social sciences as well as the natural sciences.

Über den Autor

Muhammad Ali Khalidi is Associate Professor of Philosophy at York University, Toronto.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; 1. Realism and essentialism about kinds; 2. The naturalness of kinds; 3. Kinds in the special sciences; 4. Kinds in the biological and social sciences; 5. Kinds of natural kinds; 6. Naturalising kinds.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2015
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Importe , Philosophie
Jahrhundert:	Antike
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781107521728
ISBN-10:	1107521726
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Khalidi, Muhammad Ali
Hersteller:	Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 15 mm
Von/Mit:	Muhammad Ali Khalidi
Erscheinungsdatum:	14.05.2015
Gewicht:	0,393 kg