Scientific Enquiry and Natural Kinds
eBook - PDF

Scientific Enquiry and Natural Kinds

From Planets to Mallards

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Scientific Enquiry and Natural Kinds

From Planets to Mallards

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Scientific Enquiry and Natural Kinds
  3. Contents
  4. List of Illustrations
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Series Editor’s Foreword
  7. Introduction
  8. 1 How to Think about Natural Kinds
  9. 2 A Modest Definition
  10. 3 Natural Kinds Put to Work
  11. 4 Practical and Impractical Ontology
  12. 5 The Menace of Triviality
  13. 6 Causal Processes and Property Clusters
  14. 7 Conclusion
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index