Scientific Enquiry and Natural Kinds
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Scientific Enquiry and Natural Kinds

From Planets to Mallards

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Scientific Enquiry and Natural Kinds

From Planets to Mallards

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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.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2012
ISBN
9781137271259
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Philosophy & Ethics in Science

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Scientific Enquiry and Natural Kinds
  3. Contents
  4. List of Illustrations
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Series Editor’s Foreword
  7. Introduction
  8. 1 How to Think about Natural Kinds
  9. 2 A Modest Definition
  10. 3 Natural Kinds Put to Work
  11. 4 Practical and Impractical Ontology
  12. 5 The Menace of Triviality
  13. 6 Causal Processes and Property Clusters
  14. 7 Conclusion
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index