Natural Kinds and Classification in Scientific Practice

ISBN-13: 9781138344839 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 247 str.

Catherine Kendig

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Preface  Editor’s Introduction: Activities of Kinding in Scientific Practice  PART I: Explaining Practices  1. Explanatory Strategies in Linguistic Practice 2. The Rising of Chemical Natural Kinds through Epistemic Iteration   3. Neuroscientific kinds through the Lens of Scientific Practice  PART II: Kinding and Classification  4. From a Zooming-in model to a Co-creation model: Towards a more Dynamic account of Classification and Kinds   5. Protein Tokens, Types, and Taxa   6. The Performative Construction of Natural Kinds: Mathematical Application as Practice   7. Homologizing as Kinding  PART III: The nature of natural kinds  8. Theorizing with a Purpose: The Many Kinds of Sex  9. Memory as a cognitive kind: Brains, remembering dyads, and Exograms  10. Genuine Kinds and Scientific Reality  PART IV: Shaping scientific disciplines  11. A Tale of two dilemmas: Cognitive kinds and the Extended Mind   12. Mathematical kinds? A case study in Nineteenth Century Symbolic Algebra  13. Mapping kinds in GIS and Cartography

O autorze

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.