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Carving Nature at Its Joints
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Reflections on the metaphysics and epistemology of classification from a distinguished group of philosophers.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright Page
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  1. Contents
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  1. Foreword
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. p. ix
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  1. 1. Introduction: Lessons from the Scientific Butchery
  2. pp. 1-31
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  1. 2. Induction, Samples, and Kinds
  2. pp. 33-52
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  1. 3. It Takes More Than All Kinds to Make a World
  2. pp. 53-84
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  1. 4. Lange and Laws, Kinds, and Counterfactuals
  2. pp. 85-96
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  1. 5. Are Fundamental Laws Necessary or Contingent?
  2. pp. 97-112
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  1. 6. Para-Natural Kinds
  2. pp. 113-127
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  1. 7. Boundaries, Conventions, and Realism
  2. pp. 129-153
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  1. 8. Natural Kinds and Biological Realisms
  2. pp. 155-173
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  1. 9. Three Ways of Resisting Essentialism about Natural Kinds
  2. pp. 175-197
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  1. 10. Arthritis and Nature’s Joints
  2. pp. 199-230
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  1. 11. Predicting Populations by Modeling Individuals
  2. pp. 231-251
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  1. 12. Similarity and Species Concepts
  2. pp. 253-288
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  1. 13. Species Concepts and Natural Goodness
  2. pp. 289-311
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  1. 14. How to Think about the Free Will/Determinism Problem
  2. pp. 313-340
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  1. Contributors
  2. p. 341
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 343-355
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Additional Information

ISBN
9780262298780
Related ISBN
9780262516266
MARC Record
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OCLC
760279881
Pages
368
Launched on MUSE
2013-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No

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