| 紀錄類型: |
書目-電子資源
: 單行本
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| 副題名: |
from planets to mallards |
| 作者: |
MagnusP. D., |
| 出版地: |
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York |
| 出版者: |
Palgrave Macmillan; |
| 出版年: |
2012 |
| 面頁冊數: |
1 online resource. |
| 標題: |
Ontology. - |
| 標題: |
Science - Philosophy. - |
| 標題: |
SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects - |
| 標題: |
PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology - |
| 電子資源: |
http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137271259 |
| 摘要註: |
There are certainly some scientific categories which are merely conveniences introduced to organize complicated data, but others correspond to genuine features of the world. These 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. It untangles philosophical puzzles surrounding natural kinds. Natural kinds can be practical, and we can identify them without pretending to know the fundamental structure of reality. The account is then put to work to illuminate specific examples, such as the category planet and the fate of Pluto, species like the common mallard and the species category itself, cognition and distributed cognition, animal signals and the threats they signify, and even baked goods. |
| ISBN: |
9781137271259electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
1137271256electronic bk. |
| 內容註: |
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 --. |