Some scientific categories seem to correspond to genuine features of the world and are indispensable for successful science in some domain; in short, they are natural kinds. This book gives a general account of what it is to be a natural kind and puts the account to work illuminating numerous specific examples.
Autorentext
P.D. MAGNUS is Associate Professor and teaches philosophy at the University at Albany, SUNY, USA. He has been a visiting fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science in Pittsburgh, he is the co-editor (with Jacob Busch) of New Waves in Philosophy of Science, and he is the author or co-author of dozens of published essays.
Inhalt
List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction How to Think About Natural Kinds A Modest Definition Natural Kinds Put to Work Practical and Impractical Ontology The Menace of Triviality Causal Processes and Property Clusters Conclusion Bibliography Index
Titel
Scientific Enquiry and Natural Kinds
Untertitel
From Planets to Mallards
Autor
EAN
9781137271259
ISBN
978-1-137-27125-9
Format
E-Book (pdf)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Veröffentlichung
15.10.2012
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Wasserzeichen
Dateigrösse
1.26 MB
Anzahl Seiten
210
Jahr
2012
Untertitel
Englisch
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