The semantics and metaphysics of natural kinds
By: edited by Helen Beebee and Nigel Sabbarton-Leary.
Contributors: Beebee, Helen.; Sabbarton-Leary, Nigel, 1981-
Series: Routledge studies in metaphysics -- 1
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415873666
Subjects: Categories (Philosophy); Semantics (Philosophy); Metaphysics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Helen Beebee and Nigel Sabbarton-Leary; title: Rigidity, natural kind terms, and metasemantics / Corine Besson; title: General terms as designators : a defence of the view / Genoveva Martí and José Martínez-Fernández; title: Are natural kind terms special? / Åsa Wikforss; title: The commonalities between proper names and natural kind terms : a Fregean perspective / Harold Noonan; title: Theoretical identity statements, their truth, and their discovery / Joseph Laporte; title: Discovering the essences of natural kinds / Alexander Bird; title: The elements and conceptual change / Robin Hendry; title: On the abuse of the necessary a posteriori / Helen Beebee and Nigel Sabbarton-Leary; title: Crosscutting natural kinds and the hierarchy thesis / Emma Tobin; title: From constitutional necessities to causal necessities / Jessica Wilson; title: Realism, natural kinds, and philosophical methods / Richard Boyd.