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1 online resource (250 pages) |
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Routledge Studies in Metaphysics, v. 1 |
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Routledge Studies in Metaphysics, v. 1
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| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Rigidity, Natural Kind Terms, and Metasemantics; 3 General Terms as Designators: A Defence of The View; 4 Are Natural Kind Terms Special?; 5 The Commonalities between Proper Names and Natural Kind Terms: A Fregean Perspective; 6 Theoretical Identity Statements, Their Truth, and Their Discovery; 7 Discovering the Essences of Natural Kinds; 8 The Elements and Conceptual Change; 9 On the Abuse of the Necessary A Posteriori; 10 Crosscutting Natural Kinds and the Hierarchy Thesis |
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11 From Constitutional Necessities to Causal Necessities12 Realism, Natural Kinds, and Philosophical Methods; Contributors; Index |
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Essentialism--roughly, the view that natural kinds have discrete essences, generating truths that are necessary but knowable only a posteriori--is an increasingly popular view in the metaphysics of science. At the same time, philosophers of language have been subjecting Kripke's views about the existence and scope of the necessary a posteriorito rigorous analysis and criticism. Essentialists typically appeal to Kripkean semantics to motivate their radical extension of the realm of the necessary a posteriori; but they rarely attempt to provide any semantic arguments for this extension, or engag |
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Print version record |
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Categories (Philosophy)
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Semantics (Philosophy)
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Metaphysics.
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metaphysics.
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Categories (Philosophy)
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Metaphysics
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Semantics (Philosophy)
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Sabbarton-Leary, Nigel
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| ISBN |
9780203852330 |
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0203852338 |
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