Natural Kinds and Classification in Scientific Practice
Language: English
Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2015
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Natural kinds are an important topic in current philosophical debate. This edited collection examines kinds from a new focal point, that of the empirical activities and categorizations used by scientists to define them. An esteemed group of contributors explore the nature of kinds and kinding across a variety of disciplines. Editor(s): Kendig, Catherine. Series: History and Philosophy of Biology. Num Pages: 267 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white tables, 2 black & white halftones, 3 black. BIC Classification: PDA; PDC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 241 x 19. Weight in Grams: 526. . 2015. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
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- Title
- Natural Kinds and Classification in Scientific Practice
- Author
- . Ed(s): Kendig, Catherine
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication year
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
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- 1848935404
- ISBN 13
- 9781848935402
- Series
- Book 2 of 19: History and Philosophy of Biology
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 kind-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.
The 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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Catherine Kendig is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Missouri Western State University. She completed her PhD at the University of Exeter/ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society (Egenis) and her MSc in Philosophy and History of Science at King’s College London. Kendig has research interests in philosophy of scientific classification, natural kinds, philosophy of science in practice, synthetic biology, ethics of new and emerging technologies, and philosophy of race. Her work on these topics is published in Ratio, Science and Engineering Ethics, Science & Education, History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, and International Studies in the Philosophy of Science.
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