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The semantics and metaphysics of natural kinds / edited by Helen Beebee and Nigel Sabbarton-Leary.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge studies in metaphysics ; 1.
- Routledge studies in metaphysics ; 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Categories (Philosophy).
- Semantics (Philosophy).
- Metaphysics.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 241 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2010.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Helen Beebee and Nigel Sabbarton-Leary
- Rigidity, natural kind terms, and metasemantics / Corine Besson
- General terms as designators : a defence of the view / Genoveva Martí and José Martínez-Fernández
- Are natural kind terms special? / Åsa Wikforss
- The commonalities between proper names and natural kind terms : a Fregean perspective / Harold Noonan
- Theoretical identity statements, their truth, and their discovery / Joseph Laporte
- Discovering the essences of natural kinds / Alexander Bird
- The elements and conceptual change / Robin Hendry
- On the abuse of the necessary a posteriori / Helen Beebee and Nigel Sabbarton-Leary
- Crosscutting natural kinds and the hierarchy thesis / Emma Tobin
- From constitutional necessities to causal necessities / Jessica Wilson
- Realism, natural kinds, and philosophical methods / Richard Boyd.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780415873666
- 0415873665
- OCLC:
- 419794869
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