The Semantics and Metaphysics of Natural Kinds (Routledge Studies in Metaphysics, 1, Band 1) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415873665 ISBN 13: 9780415873666

Verlag: Routledge, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

Essentialism--roughly, the view that natural kinds have discrete essences, generating truths that are necessary but knowable only a posteriori--is an increasingly popular view in the metaphysics of science. At the same time, philosophers of language have been subjecting Kripke's views about the existence and scope of the necessary a posteriori to rigorous analysis and criticism. Essentialists typically appeal to Kripkean semantics to motivate their radical extension of the realm of the necessary a posteriori; but they rarely attempt to provide any semantic arguments for this extension, or engage with the critical work being done by philosophers of language. This collection brings authors on both sides together in one volume, thus helping the reader to see the connections between views in philosophy of language on the one hand and the metaphysics of science on the other.

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Helen Beebee is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Birmingham, UK.

Nigel Sabbarton-Leary is completing his PhD at the University of Birmingham, UK

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• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0415873665
• ISBN 13: 9780415873666
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 250
• Herausgeber: Beebee Helen, Sabbarton-Leary Nigel
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