Natural Kinds and Conceptual Change

ISBN: 9780521108102 出版年：2003 页码：233 Joseph LaPorte Cambridge University Press

Preface Introduction 1. What is a natural kind and do biological taxa qualify? 2. Natural kinds, rigidity and essence 3. Biological kind term reference and the discovery of essence 4. Chemical kind term reference and the discovery of essence 5. Linguistic change and incommensurability 6. Meaning change, theory change and analyticity Notes References Index.