Muhammad Ali Khalidi

Natural Categories and Human Kinds

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Muhammad Ali Khalidi proposes a new approach to classifications in the natural and social sciences, avoiding essentialism and social constructionism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 545g
• ISBN-13: 9781107012745
• ISBN-10: 1107012740
• Artikelnr.: 37065122

Autorenporträt

Muhammad Ali Khalidi is Associate Professor of Philosophy at York University, Toronto.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Realism and essentialism about kinds
2. The naturalness of kinds
3. Kinds in the special sciences
4. Kinds in the biological and social sciences
5. Kinds of natural kinds
6. Naturalising kinds.