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Contemporary discussions of the success of science often invoke an ancient metaphorfrom Plato's Phaedrus: successful theories should "carve nature at its joints." But isnature really "jointed"? Are there natural kinds of things around which our theories cut? Theessays in this volume offer reflections by a distinguished group of philosophers on a series ofintertwined issues in the metaphysics and epistemology of classification. The contributors considersuch topics as the relevance of natural kinds in inductive inference; the role of natural kinds innatural laws; the nature of fundamental properties; the naturalness of boundaries; the metaphysicsand epistemology of biological kinds; and the relevance of biological kinds to certain questions inethics. Carving Nature at Its Joints offers both breadth and thematic unity, providing a sampling ofstate-of-the-art work in contemporary analytic philosophy that will be of interest to a wideaudience of scholars and students concerned with classification.
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Joseph Keim Campbell is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Washington State University. Michael O'Rourke is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Idaho. Matthew H. Slater is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Bucknell University. Campbell and O'Rourke are coeditors of the six previous volumes in the Topics in Contemporary Philosophy series published by the MIT Press, the most recent of which is Actions, Ethics, and Responsibility (2010).
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