Natural kind

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41Ontology / Social theories / Semantics / Hacking / Ian Hacking / Natural kind / Social constructionism / Nominalism / Intentionality / Philosophy / Science / Ethology

15P 07 Roth (JS/D[removed]:19 am

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Language: English - Date: 2011-06-08 14:43:57
42Natural kind / Ontology / Science / Philosophy / Epistemology / Semantics / Philosophy of science / Logic

Natural kinds in evolution and systematics: from metaphysics to epistemology Ingo Brigandt Department of Philosophy University of Alberta[removed]Humanities Centre

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Source URL: www.bristol.ac.uk

Language: English - Date: 2007-09-30 17:34:04
43Epistemology / Logic / Natural kind / Ontology / Semantics / Scientific theory / Causality / Chemistry / Class / Science / Philosophy of science / Knowledge

[removed] Do natural kinds need to be discrete? Lots of kinds are discrete: Chemical elements, Fundamental particles Some kinds aren’t discrete – alloys, diseases. Many thinkers have claimed that na

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Language: English - Date: 2007-10-08 04:54:16
44Philosophy of language / Philosophical logic / Meaning / Names / Semantics / Descriptivist theory of names / Saul Kripke / Naming and Necessity / Rigid designator / Analytic philosophy / Philosophy / Logic

The Commonalities between Proper Names and Natural Kind Terms: a Fregean Perspective How can we explain the commonalities Kripke brings out in the third lecture of Naming and Necessity (NN) between proper names and those

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Language: English - Date: 2007-10-08 05:47:05
45Semantics / 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
46Philosophy of language / Philosophical logic / Names / Meaning / Semantics / Naming and Necessity / Saul Kripke / Rigid designator / Causal theory of reference / Analytic philosophy / Philosophy / Logic

The Semantics of Natural Kind Terms : How to Make Kripke’s Theory Work Eileen Walker, University of Reading: [removed]. Abstract This paper clarifies and defends the Kripkean view of na tural kind terms,

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Language: English - Date: 2007-10-09 13:35:07
47Semantics / Analytic philosophers

Are Natural Kind Terms Special? Abstract Åsa Wikforss Department of Philosophy Stockholm University

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Language: English - Date: 2007-10-03 10:43:28
48Logic / Meaning / Names / Reference / Philosophical logic / Proper name / Rigid designator / David Kaplan / Sense and reference / Philosophy of language / Analytic philosophy / Linguistics

Microsoft Word - Natural Kind Terms A Metasemantic Approach[removed]doc

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Language: English - Date: 2007-10-08 04:53:57
49Cognitive 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
50Science / Functionalism / Function / Natural kind / Structural functionalism / Adaptation / Existence / Ontology / Metaphysics / Mathematics

The erratically fine-grained metaphysics of functional kinds in technology and biology Massimiliano Carrara Assistant Professor Department of Philosophy University of Padova,

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Language: English - Date: 2007-09-30 16:32:32
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