The semantics and metaphysics of natural kinds

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Helen Beebee, Helen Beebee
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The semantics and metaphysics of natural kinds

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Routledge
Language
English
Pages
241

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Cover of: Semantics and Metaphysics of Natural Kinds
Semantics and Metaphysics of Natural Kinds
2010, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: Semantics and Metaphysics of Natural Kinds
Semantics and Metaphysics of Natural Kinds
2010, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: Semantics and Metaphysics of Natural Kinds
Semantics and Metaphysics of Natural Kinds
2010, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: Semantics and Metaphysics of Natural Kinds
Semantics and Metaphysics of Natural Kinds
2010, Routledge
in English
Cover of: Semantics and Metaphysics of Natural Kinds
Semantics and Metaphysics of Natural Kinds
2010, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: The semantics and metaphysics of natural kinds
The semantics and metaphysics of natural kinds
2010, Routledge
in English
Cover of: Semantics and Metaphysics of Natural Kinds
Semantics and Metaphysics of Natural Kinds
2010, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
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Semantics and Metaphysics of Natural Kinds
2010, Taylor & Francis Group
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Table of Contents

Introduction / Helen Beebee and Nigel Sabbarton-Leary
Rigidity, natural kind terms, and metasemantics / Corine Besson
General terms as designators : a defence of the view / Genoveva Martí and José Martínez-Fernández
Are natural kind terms special? / Åsa Wikforss
The commonalities between proper names and natural kind terms : a Fregean perspective / Harold Noonan
Theoretical identity statements, their truth, and their discovery / Joseph Laporte
Discovering the essences of natural kinds / Alexander Bird
The elements and conceptual change / Robin Hendry
On the abuse of the necessary a posteriori / Helen Beebee and Nigel Sabbarton-Leary
Crosscutting natural kinds and the hierarchy thesis / Emma Tobin
From constitutional necessities to causal necessities / Jessica Wilson
Realism, natural kinds, and philosophical methods / Richard Boyd.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
New York
Series
Routledge studies in metaphysics -- 1

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
110
Library of Congress
BD331 .S442 2010, B105.E65, BD331 .S442 2010eb

The Physical Object

Pagination
vi, 241 p. ;
Number of pages
241

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24408863M
ISBN 13
9780415873666
LCCN
2009044474
OCLC/WorldCat
650097500, 419794869

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