Joseph Laporte, Laporte Joseph

Natural Kinds and Conceptual Change

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book will appeal to students and professional in the philosophy of science, the philosophy of biology and the philosophy of language.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 383g
• ISBN-13: 9780521108102
• ISBN-10: 0521108101
• Artikelnr.: 25906404

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
1. What is a natural kind and do biological taxa qualify?
2. Natural kinds, rigidity and essence
3. Biological kind term reference and the discovery of essence
4. Chemical kind term reference and the discovery of essence
5. Linguistic change and incommensurability
6. Meaning change, theory change and analyticity
Notes
References
Index.