The Semantics and Metaphysics of Natural Kinds
Essentialism--roughly, the view that natural kinds have discrete essences, generating truths that are necessary but knowable only a posteriori--is an increasingly popular view in the metaphysics of science. At the same time, philosophers of language have been subjecting Kripke's views about the existence and scope of the necessary a posteriori to rigorous analysis and criticism. Essentialists typically appeal to Kripkean semantics to motivate their radical extension of the realm of the necessary a posteriori; but they rarely attempt to provide any semantic arguments for this extension, or engage with the critical work being done by philosophe…
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Weitere Autoren: Sabbarton-Leary, Nigel (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-136-97577-6
- EAN: 9781136975776
- Produktnummer: 19566043
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 250 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 2'155 KB
Über den Autor
Helen Beebee is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Birmingham, UK. Nigel Sabbarton-Leary is completing his PhD at the University of Birmingham, UK
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