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The Aristotelian Tradition of Natural Kinds and Its Demise / Stewart Umphrey.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Umphrey, Stewart, 1942- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Species--Philosophy--History.
- Species.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (273 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- There are two great traditions of natural-kinds realism: the modern, instituted by Mill and elaborated by Venn, Peirce, Kripke, Putnam, Boyd, and others; and the ancient, instituted by Aristotle, elaborated by the "medieval" Aristotelians, and eventually overthrown by Galilean and Newtonian physicists, by Locke, Leibniz, and Kant, and by Darwin.
- Contents:
- Origin of the idea of natural kinds
- Eidos and Genesis I: Plato
- Eidos and Genesis II: Aristotle
- And the word of God
- Lex and Motus I: Galilean science
- Lex and Motus II: after Descartes
- Darwin.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8132-3042-X
- OCLC:
- 1049975111
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