Muhammad Ali Khalidi: 1 book
Natural Categories and Human Kinds
Classification in the Natural and Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
The notion of 'natural kinds' has been central to contemporary discussions of metaphysics and philosophy of science. Although explicitly articulated by nineteenth-century philosophers like Mill, Whewell and Venn, it has a much older history dating back to Plato and Aristotle. In recent years, essentialism...
