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_aKhalidi, Muhammad Ali _c(Professor of philosophy), _eauthor. |
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_aNatural kinds / _cMuhammad Ali Khalidi. |
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_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2023. |
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_a1 online resource (72 pages) : _billustrations (black and white, and colour), digital, PDF file(s). |
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_aCambridge elements. Elements in the philosophy of science, _x2517-7273 |
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| 500 | _aAlso issued in print: 2023. | ||
| 504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references. | ||
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_aOpen access. _fUnrestricted online access _2star |
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| 520 | 8 | _aScientists cannot devise theories, construct models, propose explanations, make predictions, or even carry out observations, without first classifying their subject matter. The goal of scientific taxonomy is to come up with classification schemes that conform to nature's own. Another way of putting this is that science aims to devise categories that correspond to 'natural kinds'. The interest in ascertaining the real kinds of things in nature is as old as philosophy itself, but it takes on a different guise when one adopts a naturalist stance in philosophy, that is when one looks closely at scientific practice and takes it as a guide for identifying natural kinds and investigating their general features. This Element surveys existing philosophical accounts of natural kinds, defends a naturalist alternative, and applies it to case studies in a diverse set of sciences. | |
| 521 | _aSpecialized. | ||
| 588 | _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on August 23, 2023). | ||
| 650 | 0 | _aPhilosophy of nature. | |
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_aBiology _xClassification _xPhilosophy. |
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| 650 | 0 | _aNaturalism. | |
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_aCambridge elements. _pElements in the philosophy of science, _x2517-7273. |
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