The semantics and metaphysics of natural kinds
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The semantics and metaphysics of natural kinds
（Routledge studies in metaphysics, 1）
Routledge, 2010
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Introduction / Helen Beebee and Nigel Sabbarton-Leary
- Rigidity, natural kind terms, and metasemantics / Corine Besson
- General terms as designators: a defence of the view / Genoveva Martí and José Martínez-Fernández
- Are natural kind terms special? / Åsa Wikforss
- The commonalities between proper names and natural kind terms: a Fregean perspective / Harold Noonan
- Theoretical identity statements, their truth, and their discovery / Joseph Laporte
- Discovering the essences of natural kinds / Alexander Bird
- The elements and conceptual change / Robin Findlay Hendry
- On the abuse of the necessary a posteriori / Helen Beebee and Nigel Sabbarton-Leary
- Crosscutting natural kinds and the hierarchy thesis / Emma Tobin
- From constitutional necessities to causal necessities / Jessica Wilson
- Realism, natural kinds, and philosophical methods / Richard N. Boyd