Carving nature at its joints : natural kinds in metaphysics and science / edited by Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, and Matthew H. Slater.

Carving nature at its joints : natural kinds in metaphysics and science /

"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 essa...

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Other Authors: Campbell, Joseph Keim, 1958- (Editor), O'Rourke, Michael, 1963- (Editor), Slater, Matthew H., 1977- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2011]
Series:Topics in contemporary philosophy.
Subjects:
Naturalism.
Science > Philosophy.
Philosophy of nature.
Metaphysics.
Metaphysics
naturalism (philosophical movement)
metaphysics.
Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : lessons from the scientific butchery / Matthew H. Slater and Andrea Borghini
  • Induction, samples, and kinds / Peter Godfrey-Smith
  • It takes more than all kinds to make a world / Alexander Bird
  • Lange and laws, kinds, and counterfactuals / Alexander Bird
  • Are fundamental laws necessary or contingent? / Noa Latham
  • Para-natural kinds / Roy Sorensen
  • Boundaries, conventions, and realism / Achille C. Varzi
  • Natural kinds and biological realisms / Michael Devitt
  • Three ways of resisting essentialism about natural kinds / Bence Nanay
  • Arthritis and nature's joints / Neil E. Williams
  • Predicting populations by modeling individuals / Bruce Glymour
  • Similarity and species concepts / Jason G. Rheins
  • Species concepts and natural goodness / Judith K. Crane and Ronald Sandler
  • How to think about the free will/determinism problem / Kadri Vihvelin.

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