Essentialism

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41Semantics / Philosophy of language / Philosophy of life / Ontology / Philosophical logic / Rigid designator / Essentialism / Natural kind / Species / Logic / Science / Philosophy

ESSENCES OF NATURAL KINDS: DISCOVERED OR STIPULATED? Remarks on Joseph LaPorte’s Natural Kinds and Conceptual Change Alexander Bird

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Language: English - Date: 2007-09-27 10:37:52
42Cognitive science / Materialism / Physicalism / Natural kind / Semantics / Multiple realizability / Causality / Essentialism / Emergence / Metaphysics / Philosophy / Philosophy of science

1 Paper to be delivered at: Nature and Its Classification A Metaphysics of Science Conference

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Language: English - Date: 2007-09-30 16:33:35
43Science / Property / Natural kind / Species / Michael Ghiselin / Essentialism / Saul Kripke / Argument / Class / Philosophy / Metaphysics / Ontology

Sykora_Species-kind-vs-individual-talks

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Source URL: www.bristol.ac.uk

Language: English - Date: 2007-10-07 14:08:14
44Essentialism / Ceteris paribus / Natural kind / Category of being / Property / Nominalism / Class / Problem of universals / Ontology / Metaphysics / Philosophy

Natural Kinds & Symbiosis Emma Tobin Abstract: Biological species are often taken as counterexamples to essentialist accounts of natural kinds. Essentialists like Ellis[removed]agree with nominalists that because biologic

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Language: English - Date: 2007-06-27 13:46:02
45Feminist theory / Social theories / Sociological paradigms / Feminist philosophy / Gender studies / Epistemic advantage / Essentialism / Nancy Hartsock / Epistemology / Feminism / Social philosophy / Sociology

To appear in Gendered Ways of knowing? Edited by G. Covi, t. Wobbe, S Knauss, FBK Press, Trento. THIS IS JUST A DRAFT, PLEASE DO NOT CITE On the Independence of the Social and Situated Dimensions of Scientific Knowledge

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Source URL: www.dif.unige.it

Language: English - Date: 2014-07-15 03:19:14
46Analytic philosophers / Essentialism / Philosophical logic / Philosophy of life / Modal logic / Naming and Necessity / Hilary Putnam / A priori and a posteriori / David Chalmers / Philosophy / Logic / Analytic philosophy

Natural Kinds: (Thick) Essentialism or Promiscuous Realism? Theoretical identity statements of the form ‘water is H2 O’ are allegedly necessary truths knowable a posteriori, and assert that nothing could be water and

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Language: English - Date: 2007-06-19 09:48:42
47Philosophy of life / Ontology / Essentialism / Names / Modal logic / Saul Kripke / Being / Naming and Necessity / Essence / Philosophy / Metaphysics / Logic

Essentialism and Chemical Kinds E. J. Lowe Had we such Ideas of Substances, as to know what real Constitutions produce those sensible Qualities we find in them, and how those Qualities flowed from thence, we could, by th

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Language: English - Date: 2007-06-27 08:57:36
48Ludwig Wittgenstein / Ontology / Philosophy of life / Philosophical Investigations / Idealism / Thomism / G. E. M. Anscombe / Being / Analytic philosophy / Philosophy / Philosophical movements / Cambridge University Moral Sciences Club

28 Wittgenstein’s Essentialism R OGER P OUIVET Abstract Wittgenstein is often described as strongly anti-essentialist. The famous passage about “games” in his Philosophical Investigations is generally read as a dec

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Language: English - Date: 2014-11-07 16:16:12
49Human behavior / Anthropology / Evolutionary psychology / Human nature / Humans / Philosophical anthropology / Human / Essentialism / Philosophy of biology / Biology / Science / Behavior

This article was downloaded by:[Machery, Edouard] On: 12 July 2008 Access Details: [subscription number[removed]Publisher: Routledge Informa Ltd Registered in England and Wales Registered Number: [removed]Registered of

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Language: English - Date: 2009-09-24 22:59:24
50Philosophy / Standpoint theory / Epistemic advantage / Epistemology / Standpoint feminism / Essentialism / Objectivity / Feminist theory / Feminism / Social philosophy

In: De Caro, M. e Egidi R. (eds.), The Architecture of Knowledge: Epistemology, Agency and Science, Carocci, Roma, 2010. THIS IS JUST A DRAFT, PLEASE DO NOT CITE Do Feminist Standpoint Epistemologies of the Sciences Ans

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Language: English - Date: 2014-07-15 03:19:14
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