Natural Kinds and Classification in Scientific Practice (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Kendig, Catherine

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Natural kinds are an important topic in current philosophical debate. This edited collection examines kinds from a new focal point, that of the empirical activities and categorizations used by scientists to define them. An esteemed group of contributors explore the nature of kinds and kinding across a variety of disciplines.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 267
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317215424
• Artikelnr.: 44475384

Autorenporträt

Catherine Kendig is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Missouri Western State University. She completed her PhD at the University of Exeter/ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society (Egenis) and her MSc in Philosophy and History of Science at King's College London. Kendig has research interests in philosophy of scientific classification, natural kinds, philosophy of science in practice, synthetic biology, ethics of new and emerging technologies, and philosophy of race. Her work on these topics is published in Ratio, Science and Engineering Ethics, Science & Education, History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, and International Studies in the Philosophy of Science.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Editor's Introduction: Activities of Kinding in Scientific Practice
PART I: Explaining Practices 1. Explanatory Strategies in Linguistic
Practice 2. The Rising of Chemical Natural Kinds through Epistemic
Iteration 3. Neuroscientific kinds through the Lens of Scientific Practice
PART II: Kinding and Classification 4. From a Zooming-in model to a
Co-creation model: Towards a more Dynamic account of Classification and
Kinds 5. Protein Tokens, Types, and Taxa 6. The Performative Construction
of Natural Kinds: Mathematical Application as Practice 7. Homologizing as
Kinding PART III: The nature of natural kinds 8. Theorizing with a Purpose:
The Many Kinds of Sex 9. Memory as a cognitive kind: Brains, remembering
dyads, and Exograms 10. Genuine Kinds and Scientific Reality PART IV:
Shaping scientific disciplines 11. A Tale of two dilemmas: Cognitive kinds
and the Extended Mind 12. Mathematical kinds? A case study in Nineteenth
Century Symbolic Algebra 13. Mapping kinds in GIS and Cartography