TY  - BOOK
AU  - Beebee,Helen
AU  - Sabbarton-Leary,Nigel
TI  - The semantics and metaphysics of natural kinds
T2  - Routledge studies in metaphysics
SN  - 9780203852330 (ebk : PDF)
U1  - 110 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Categories (Philosophy)
KW  - Metaphysics
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - lcsh
N1  - 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
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