Barberousse, Anouk and Longy, Françoise and Merlin, Francesca and Ruphy, Stéphanie (2020) Natural kinds: a new synthesis. THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science, 35 (3). pp. 365-387. ISSN 2171-679X
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Abstract
What is a natural kind? This old yet lasting philosophical question has recently received new competing answers (e.g., Chakravartty, 2007; Magnus, 2014; Khalidi, 2013; Slater, 2015; Ereshefsky & Reydon, 2015). We show that the main ingredients of an encompassing and coherent account of natural kinds are actually on the table, but in need of the right articulation. It is by adopting a non-reductionist, naturalistic and non-conceptualist approach that, in this paper, we elaborate a new synthesis of all these ingredients. Our resulting proposition is a multiple-compartment theory of natural kinds that defines them in purely ontological terms, clearly distinguishes and relates ontological and epistemological issues - more precisely, two grains of ontological descriptions and two grains of explanatory success of natural kinds -, and which sheds light on why natural kinds play an epistemic role both within science and in everyday life.
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| Additional Information: | ISSN: 0495-4548 (print) | |||||||||||||||
| Keywords: | Natural Kind; HPC; Essentialism | |||||||||||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Explanation General Issues > Natural Kinds |
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| Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email theoria@ehu.es | |||||||||||||||
| Date Deposited: | 19 Oct 2020 02:55 | |||||||||||||||
| Last Modified: | 19 Oct 2020 02:55 | |||||||||||||||
| Item ID: | 18283 | |||||||||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science | |||||||||||||||
| Publisher: | Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea / Universidad del País Vasco | |||||||||||||||
| Official URL: | https://ojs.ehu.eus/index.php/THEORIA/article/view... | |||||||||||||||
| DOI or Unique Handle: | 10.1387/theoria.21066 | |||||||||||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Explanation General Issues > Natural Kinds |
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| Date: | September 2020 | |||||||||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 365-387 | |||||||||||||||
| Volume: | 35 | |||||||||||||||
| Number: | 3 | |||||||||||||||
| ISSN: | 2171-679X | |||||||||||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/18283 |
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