Scientific Enquiry and Natural Kinds - From Planets to Mallards

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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.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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

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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

Product details

• Authors: P Magnus, P. Magnus, P. D. Magnus, MAGNUS P D
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.10.2012
• EAN: 9780230369177
• ISBN: 978-0-230-36917-7
• No. of pages: 222
• Series: New Directions in the Philosophy of Science; New Directions in the Philosop; New Directions in the Philosophy of Science; New Directions in the Philosop
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; B, Philosophy of Science, Epistemology, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy and science, Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, bibliography;knowledge;ontology;science