LEADER 06328oam 2200769M 450 001 9910826555203321 005 20190503073400.0 010 $a1-283-32175-0 010 $a9786613321756 010 $a0-262-29878-3 024 8 $a9786613321756 035 $a(CKB)2550000000063500 035 $a(EBL)3339326 035 $a(OCoLC)760279881 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000534829 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12180537 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000534829 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10518235 035 $a(PQKB)10515271 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000131005 035 $a(OCoLC)760279881$z(OCoLC)761291267$z(OCoLC)816870226$z(OCoLC)961488833$z(OCoLC)962644027$z(OCoLC)966209800$z(OCoLC)988530207$z(OCoLC)990466565$z(OCoLC)992035982$z(OCoLC)1037925573$z(OCoLC)1038606190$z(OCoLC)1045540405 035 $a(OCoLC-P)760279881 035 $a(MaCbMITP)8997 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3339326 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000063500 100 $a20111109d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aCarving nature at its joints $enatural kinds in metaphysics and science /$fedited by Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, and Matthew H. Slater 210 1$aCambridge, Massachusetts :$cThe MIT Press,$d[2011] 210 4$dİ2011 215 $a1 online resource (367 p.) 225 1 $aTopics in 8contemporary philosophy 300 $a"A Bradford book." 311 $a0-262-01593-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Introduction : Lessons from the Scientific Butchery; 1 Carving Nature at Its Joints; 2 Natural Kinds and Inductive Inference; 3 The Question of Essentialism; 4 Applications; 5 The Essays; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Chapter 2. Induction, Samples, and Kinds; 1 Introduction; 2 Goodman's Problem and Naturalness Constraints; 3 A Second Form of Inference; 4 A Nominalist Challenge; 5 A Discussion of Cases; 6 Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Chapter 3. It Takes More Than All Kinds to Make a World; 1 Introduction 327 $a2 Distinguishing the Laws by Their Stability3 Natural Necessity; 4 The Laws Form a System; 5 How Some Laws Can Transcend Others; 6 Natural Properties; Notes; References; Chapter 4. Lange and Laws, Kinds, and Counterfactuals; 1 Lange on Laws; 2 Lange on Kinds; 3 Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 5. Are Fundamental Laws Necessary or Contingent?; I; II; III; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Chapter 6. Para-Natural Kinds; Extending Plato's Metaphor; Contrast with Artifacts; Nomic Legacies; Natural Kind or Para-Natural Kind?; Kripke Tests; Putnam Tests; Back-up Strategy 327 $aSecond Order Para-Natural KindsHistorical Controversy; Some Parting Imagery; Summary of Three Theses; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 7. Boundaries, Conventions, and Realism; 1 Natural vs. Artificial Boundaries; 2 Boundaries and Things; 3 From Boundaries to Things; 4 Conventionalism and Realism; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Chapter 8. Natural Kinds and Biological Realisms; 1 Introduction; 2 Species Concepts; 3 Species Pluralism; 4 Realism in General; 5 Ereshefsky versus Kitcher; 6 The Higher Categories; 7 Conclusions; Notes; References 327 $aChapter 9. Three Ways of Resisting Essentialism about Natural Kinds1 Essentialism about Natural Kinds; 2 Questioning the First Tenet: All and Only the Members of a Kind Have a Common Essence; 3 Questioning the First Tenet of Kind-Essentialism in the Biological Domain; 4 Questioning the Second Tenet: Causal Responsibility; 5 Questioning the Third Tenet: Explanatory Relevance; 6 Questioning the Third Tenet of Kind-Essentialism in the Biological Domain; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Chapter 10. Arthritis and Nature's Joints; 1 Disease Kinds and Essences 327 $a2 Why Treat Disease Kinds as Natural Kinds?3 Two Approaches to Natural Kinds; 4 What Is a Disease?; 5 Natural Disease Kinds; 6 Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 11. Predicting Populations by Modeling Individuals; 1 Introduction; 2 The Scientists' Problem, and Two Strategies for Solving It; 3 Why One-Off Models of Evolving Biological Populations Make Sense; 4 An Illustrative Case; 5 Mistakes Compounded; 6 Final Considerations; Notes; References; Chapter 12. Similarity and Species Concepts; 1 Introduction; 2 Similarity or Sameness as the Basis of Concepts and Kinds 327 $a3 Realist Species Conceptions 330 $a"Contemporary discussions of the success of science often invoke an ancient metaphor from Plato's Phaedrus: successful theories should 'carve nature at its joints.' But is nature really 'jointed'? Are there natural kinds of things around which our theories cut? The essays in this volume offer reflections by a distinguished group of philosophers on a series of intertwined issues in the metaphysics and epistemology of classification. The contributors consider such topics as the relevance of natural kinds in inductive inference; the role of natural kinds in natural laws; the nature of fundamental properties; the naturalness of boundaries; the metaphysics and epistemology of biological kinds; and the relevance of biological kinds to certain questions in ethics. Carving nature at its joints offers both breadth and thematic unity, providing a sampling of state-of-the-art work in contemporary analytic philosophy that will be of interest to a wide audience of scholars and students concerned with classification."--MIT CogNet. 410 0$aTopics in Contemporary Philosophy 606 $aNaturalism 606 $aScience$xPhilosophy 606 $aPhilosophy of nature 606 $aMetaphysics 610 $aPHILOSOPHY/Philosophy of Science & Technology 610 $aSCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Science 615 0$aNaturalism. 615 0$aScience$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aPhilosophy of nature. 615 0$aMetaphysics. 676 $a113 702 $aCampbell$b Joseph Keim$f1958- 702 $aO'Rourke$b Michael$f1963- 702 $aSlater$b Matthew H.$f1977- 801 0$bOCoLC-P 801 1$bOCoLC-P 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910826555203321 996 $aCarving nature at its joints$94100910 997 $aUNINA