The Semantics and Metaphysics of Natural Kinds
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-87366-6 (ISBN)
Helen Beebee is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Birmingham, UK. Nigel Sabbarton-Leary is completing his PhD at the University of Birmingham, UK
Acknowledgments 1: Introduction, Helen Beebee and Nigel Sabbarton-Leary 2: Rigidity, Natural Kind Terms and Metasemantics, Corine Besson 3: General Terms as Designators: A Defence of The View, Genoveva Martí and José Martínez-Fernández 4: Are Natural Kind Terms Special? Åsa Wikforss 5: The Commonalities Between Proper Names and Natural Kind Terms: A Fregean Perspective, Harold Noonan 6: Theoretical Identity Statements, Their Truth, and Their Discovery, Joseph LaPorte 7: Discovering the Essences of Natural Kinds, Alexander Bird 8: The Elements and Conceptual Change, Robin Hendry 9: On the Abuse of the Necessary A Posterior, Helen Beebee and Nigel Sabbarton-Leary 10: Crosscutting Natural Kinds and the Hierarchy Thesis, Emma Tobin 11: From Constitutional Necessities to Causal Necessities, Jessica Wilson 12: Realism, Natural Kinds and Philosophical Methods, Richard Boyd Notes on Contributors Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 4.6.2010 |
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Reihe/Serie | Routledge Studies in Metaphysics |
Zusatzinfo | 1 Tables, black and white |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 620 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie |
ISBN-10 | 0-415-87366-5 / 0415873665 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-415-87366-6 / 9780415873666 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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