Text

Carving Nature at Its Joints: Natural Kinds in Metaphysics and Science

---

"A Bradford book.""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.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

---

Availability

No copy data

Detail Information

Series Title

-

Call Number

-

Publisher

: Cambridge University Press.., 2011

Collation

1 online resource (viii, 355 pages).

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9780262298780

Classification

NONE

Content Type

text

Media Type

computer

Carrier Type

online resource

Edition

-

Subject(s)

Science
Metaphysics.
Naturalism.
Philosophy of nature.

Specific Detail Info

-

Statement of Responsibility

edited by Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, and Matthew H. Slater.

Other Information

Cataloger

hasyim

Source

-

Validator

hasyim

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262015936.001.0001

Journal Volume

-

Journal Issue

-

Subtitle

-

Parallel Title

-

Other version/related

File Attachment

Comments

---

You must be logged in to post a comment