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Scientific Enquiry and Natural Kinds: From Planets to Mallards de P. Magnus

Scientific Enquiry and Natural Kinds: From Planets to Mallards: New Directions in the Philosophy of Science

Autor P. Magnus
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 oct 2012
Some scientific categories seem to correspond to genuine features of the world and are indispensable for successful science in some domain; in short, they are natural kinds. This book gives a general account of what it is to be a natural kind and puts the account to work illuminating numerous specific examples.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780230369177
ISBN-10: 0230369170
Pagini: 210
Ilustrații: XII, 210 p.
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Ediția:2012
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Seria New Directions in the Philosophy of Science

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction How to Think About Natural Kinds A Modest Definition Natural Kinds Put to Work Practical and Impractical Ontology The Menace of Triviality Causal Processes and Property Clusters Conclusion Bibliography Index

Notă biografică

P.D. MAGNUS is Associate Professor and teaches philosophy at the University at Albany, SUNY, USA. He has been a visiting fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science in Pittsburgh, he is the co-editor (with Jacob Busch) of New Waves in Philosophy of Science, and he is the author or co-author of dozens of published essays.