The Semantics and Metaphysics of Natural Kinds by

Routledge Studies in Metaphysics

The Semantics and Metaphysics of Natural Kinds

241 pages hardcover

1 edition

nonfiction philosophy
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Essentialism--roughly, the view that natural kinds have discrete essences, generating truths that are necessary but knowable only a posteriori--is an increasingly popular view in the metaphysics of science. At the same time, philosophers of langua...

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