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Natural Categories and Human Kinds - Couverture souple

Khalidi, Muhammad Ali

 
9781107521728: Natural Categories and Human Kinds
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1107521726 ISBN 13 : 9781107521728
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2015

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

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

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1107521726
ISBN 13 
9781107521728
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
268
Coordonnées du fabricant
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