The semantics and metaphysics of natural kinds

著者

edited by Helen Beebee and Nigel Sabbarton-Leary

（Routledge studies in metaphysics, 1）

Routledge, 2010

Includes bibliographical references and index

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