Natural kinds and classification in scientific practice
This edited volume of 13 new essays aims to turn past discussions of natural kinds on their head. Instead of presenting a metaphysical view of kinds based largely on an unempirical vantage point, it pursues questions of kindedness which take the use of kinds and activities of kinding in practice as significant in the articulation of them as kinds. The book brings philosophical study of current and historical episodes and case studies from various scientific disciplines to bear on natural kinds …
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- Full title :Natural kinds and classification in scientific practice / edited by Catherine Kendig.
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This edited volume of 13 new essays aims to turn past discussions of natural kinds on their head. Instead of presenting a metaphysical view of kinds based largely on an unempirical vantage point, it pursues questions of kindedness which take the use of kinds and activities of kinding in practice as significant in the articulation of them as kinds. The book brings philosophical study of current and historical episodes and case studies from various scientific disciplines to bear on natural kinds as traditionally conceived of within metaphysics. Focusing on these practices reveals the different knowledge-producing activities of kinding and processes involved in natural kind use, generation, and discovery. Specialists in their field, the esteemed group of contributors use diverse empirically responsive approaches to explore the nature of kindhood. This groundbreaking volume presents detailed case studies that exemplify kinding in use. Newly written for this volume, each chapter engages with the activities of kinding across a variety of disciplines. Chapter topics include the nature of kinds, kindhood, kinding, and king-making in linguistics, chemical classification, neuroscience, gene and protein classification, colour theory in applied mathematics, homology in comparative biology, sex and gender identity theory, memory research, race, extended cognition, symbolic algebra, cartography, and geographic information science. This volume seeks to open up an as-yet-unexplored area within the emerging field of philosophy of science in practice, and constitutes a valuable addition to the disciplines of philosophy and history of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
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- Publication Date:©2016
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- Publisher(s):Routledge
- Place of Publication:Abingdon, Oxon
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2016
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xx, 247 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781315619934, 1315619938, 9781317215424, 1317215427, 9781781447338, 1781447330, 9781317215417, 1317215419
- oclc:ocn933433440
- LC Classification:Q177
- Dewey Decimal:501/.2
Table of Contents
Explanatory strategies in linguistic practice / Bernhard Nickel -- The rising of chemical natural kinds through epistemic iteration / Hasok Chang -- Neuroscientific kinds through the lens of scientific practice / Jackie Sullivan -- From a zooming-in model to a co-creation model: towards a more dynamic account of classification and kinds / Thomas A.C. Reydon -- Protein tokens, types, and taxa / Joyce C. Havstad -- The performative construction of natural kinds: mathematical application as a practice / Jordi Cat -- Homologizing as kinding / Catherine Kendig -- Theorizing with a purpose: the many kinds of sex / Sally Haslanger -- Memory as a cognitive kind: brains, remembering dyads, and exograms / Samuli Pöyhönen -- Genuine kinds and scientific reality / Quayshawn Spencer -- A tale of two dilemmas: cognitive kinds and the extended mind / Michael Wheeler -- Mathematical kinds? A case study in nineteenth-century symbolical algebra / Josipa Petrunic -- Mapping kinds in GIS and cartography / Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther.
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