Carving Nature at Its Joints
Natural Kinds in Metaphysics and Science
Reflections on the metaphysics and epistemology of classification from a distinguished group of philosophers.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 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.The contributors consider such topics as the relevance of natural kinds in inductive inference; the role of nat…
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Weitere Autoren: O'Rourke, Michael (Hrsg.) / Slater, Matthew H. (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-262-29790-5
- EAN: 9780262297905
- Produktnummer: 27866485
- Verlag: MIT Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 368 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'424 KB
- Abbildungen: 14 FIGURES, 1 TABLE
Über den Autor
Joseph Keim Campbell is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Washington State University.Michael O'Rourke is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Michigan State University.Matthew H. Slater is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Bucknell University.Ronald Sandler is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Northeastern University.
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