The semantics and metaphysics of natural kinds / ed. by H.Beebee, N.Sabbarton-Leary. - New York; London: Routledge, 2010. - vi, 241 p. - Incl. bibl. ref. - Ind.: p.237-241. - ISBN 978-0-415-87366-6  Место хранения:   035 | Объединенный институт истории, филологии и философии СО РАН | Новосибирск | Библиотека

Оглавление / Contents

Acknowledgments ............................................... vii 1 Introduction ................................................. 1 HELEN BEEBEE AND NIGEL SABBARTON-LEARY 2 Rigidity, Natural Kind Terms, and Metasemantics ............. 25 CORINE BESSON 3 General Terms as Designators: A Defence of The View ......... 46 GENOVEVA MARTÍ AND JOSE MARTÍNEZ-FERNÁNDEZ 4 Are Natural Kind Terms Special? ............................. 64 ÅSA WIKFORSS 5 The Commonalities between Proper Names and Natural Kind Terms: A Fregean Perspective ................................ 84 HAROLD NOONAN 6 Theoretical Identity Statements, Their Truth, and Their Discovery .................................................. 104 JOSEPH LAPORTE 7 Discovering the Essences of Natural Kinds .................. 125 ALEXANDER BIRD 8 The Elements and Conceptual Change ......................... 137 ROBIN FINDLAY HENDRY 9 On the Abuse of the Necessary A Posteriori ................. 159 HELEN BEEBEE AND NIGEL SABBARTON-LEARY 10 Crosscutting Natural Kinds and the Hierarchy Thesis ........ 179 EMMA TOBIN 11 From Constitutional Necessities to Causal Necessities ...... 192 JESSICA WILSON 12 Realism, Natural Kinds, and Philosophical Methods .......... 212 RICHARD N. BOYD Contributors .................................................. 235 Index ......................................................... 237