Perspectives on Classification in Synthetic Sciences

Unnatural Kinds
Herausgeber: Bursten, Julia

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume launches a new series of contemporary conversations about scientific classification. Most philosophical conversations about kinds have focused centrally or solely on natural kinds, that is, kinds whose existence is not dependent on the scientific process of synthesis. This volume refocuses conversations about classification on unnatural, or synthetic, kinds via extensive study of three paradigm cases of unnatural kinds: nanomaterials, stem cells, and synthetic biology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 316g
• ISBN-13: 9780367785895
• ISBN-10: 0367785897
• Artikelnr.: 61211977

Autorenporträt

Julia R. S. Bursten is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at The University of Kentucky, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contributors
1. Introduction
Dialogue one: Historical lenses on classification in chemistry and biology
1. Evan Hepler-Smith, "Crafting names and making kinds: lessons from the
1892 Geneva Nomenclature Congress"
2. Aleta Quinn, "Biological kinds at the turn of the 20th century:
characters, genes, and species as theoretical elements"
Dialogue two: A new synthesis of concerns about biological kinds
1. Vadim Keyser, "Artifacts and artefacts: A methodological
classification of context-specific regularities"
2. Catherine Kendig and Bryan A. Bartley, "Synthetic kinds: kind-making
in biology"
Dialogue three: Scientific, philosophical, and legal challenges in
classifying biological constructs
1. Ubaka Ogbogu, "What is a new object? Case studies of classification
problems and practices at the intersection of law and biotechnology"
2. Melinda Bonnie Fagan, "Stem cells and nanomaterials as experimental
kinds"
Dialogue four: Synthetic kinds in chemistry and nanoscience
1. Jill E. Millstone and Julia R. S. Bursten, "Nanochemistry meets
philosophy of science: a conversation about collaborative
classification"
2. John Rumble, Jr., "Categorization of nanomaterials: tools for being
precise"
Index