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The semantics and metaphysics of natural kinds [electronic resource] / edited by Helen Beebee and Nigel Sabbarton-Leary.

Contributor(s): Beebee, Helen | Sabbarton-Leary, Nigel, 1981-.
Series: Routledge studies in metaphysics: 1.Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2010Description: 1 online resource (vi, 241 p.).ISBN: 9780203852330 (ebk : PDF).Subject(s): Categories (Philosophy) | MetaphysicsGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: No title; No titleDDC classification: 110 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; Also available in print edition.
Contents:
Introduction / Helen Beebee and Nigel Sabbarton-Leary -- Rigidity, natural kind terms, and metasemantics / Corine Besson -- General terms as designators : a defence of the view / Genoveva Martâi and Josâe Martâinez-Fernâandez -- Are natural kind terms special? / êAsa Wikforss -- The commonalities between proper names and natural kind terms : a Fregean perspective / Harold Noonan -- Theoretical identity statements, their truth, and their discovery / Joseph Laporte -- Discovering the essences of natural kinds / Alexander Bird -- The elements and conceptual change / Robin Hendry -- On the abuse of the necessary a posteriori / Helen Beebee and Nigel Sabbarton-Leary -- Crosscutting natural kinds and the hierarchy thesis / Emma Tobin -- From constitutional necessities to causal necessities / Jessica Wilson -- Realism, natural kinds, and philosophical methods / Richard Boyd.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Helen Beebee and Nigel Sabbarton-Leary -- Rigidity, natural kind terms, and metasemantics / Corine Besson -- General terms as designators : a defence of the view / Genoveva Martâi and Josâe Martâinez-Fernâandez -- Are natural kind terms special? / êAsa Wikforss -- The commonalities between proper names and natural kind terms : a Fregean perspective / Harold Noonan -- Theoretical identity statements, their truth, and their discovery / Joseph Laporte -- Discovering the essences of natural kinds / Alexander Bird -- The elements and conceptual change / Robin Hendry -- On the abuse of the necessary a posteriori / Helen Beebee and Nigel Sabbarton-Leary -- Crosscutting natural kinds and the hierarchy thesis / Emma Tobin -- From constitutional necessities to causal necessities / Jessica Wilson -- Realism, natural kinds, and philosophical methods / Richard Boyd.

Also available in print edition.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.