Natural kind theory as a tool for philosophers of science

EPSA Epistemology and Methodology of Science: Launch of the European Philosophy of Science Association

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 245-254

  Reydon, Thomas A C ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861565622     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-3263-8_21     Document Type: Chapter

References (16)

1. Boyd RN (1991) Realism, anti-foundationalism and the enthusiasm for natural kinds. Philos Stud 61:127-148
2. Boyd RN (1999) Kinds, complexity and multiple realization. Philos Stud 95:67-98
3. Boyd RN (2000) Kinds as the "workmanship of men": realism, constructivism, and natural kinds. In: Nida-Rümelin J (ed) Rationalität, Realismus, Revision: Vorträge des 3. Internationalen Kon-gresses der Gesellschaft für Analytische Philosophie. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, pp 52-89
4. Churchland PM (1985) Conceptual progress and word/world relations: in search of the essence of natural kinds. Can J Philos 15:1-17
5. Dupré JA (2000) Natural kinds. In: Newton-Smith WH (ed) A companion to the philosophy of science. Blackwell, Oxford, pp 311-319
6. Elder CL (2008) Biological species are natural kinds. South J Philos 46:339-362
7. Ellis BD (2001) Scientific essentialism. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
8. Ellis BD (2002) The philosophy of nature: a guide to the new essentialism. McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal/Kingston
9. Garvey B (2007) Philosophy of biology. Acumen, Stocksfield
10. Hacking I (1991a) A tradition of natural kinds. Philos Stud 61:109-126
11. Hacking I (1991b) On Boyd. Philos Stud 61:149-154
12. Hacking I (1995) The looping effects of human kinds. In: Sperber D, Premack D, Premack AJ (eds) Causal cognition: a multidisciplinary debate. Oxford University Press, New York, pp 351-394
13. Hacking I (2007) Natural kinds: rosy dawn, scholastic twilight. In: O'Hear A (ed) Philosophy of science (Philosophy-Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 61). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp 203-239
14. Haddock A, Dupré JA (2006) Natural kinds. In: Borchert DM (ed) Encyclopedia of philosophy, 2nd edition, vol 6. Macmillan Reference, Detroit, pp 503-505
15. Oderberg DS (2007) Real essentialism. Routledge, London Quine WV (1969) Natural kinds. In: Rescher N (ed) Essays in honor of Carl G. Hempel. Reidel, Dordrecht, pp 5-23
16. Russell B (1948) Human knowledge: its scope and limits. George Allen & Unwin, London