P. Magnus

Scientific Enquiry and Natural Kinds

From Planets to Mallards

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Some scientific categories seem to correspond to genuine features of the world and 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 and puts the account to work illuminating numerous specific examples.

Produktdetails

• New Directions in the Philosophy of Science
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-230-36917-7
• 2012
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 142mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 409g
• ISBN-13: 9780230369177
• ISBN-10: 0230369170
• Artikelnr.: 35531420

Autorenporträt

P.D. MAGNUS is Associate Professor and teaches philosophy at the University at Albany, SUNY, USA. He has been a visiting fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science in Pittsburgh, he is the co-editor (with Jacob Busch) of New Waves in Philosophy of Science, and he is the author or co-author of dozens of published essays.

Inhaltsangabe

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