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(2010) The present situation in the philosophy of science, Dordrecht, Springer.
How special are the life sciences?
a view from the natural kinds debate
Thomas A.C. Reydon
pp. 173-188
Philosophers of the special sciences seem to find it important to ask whether or not particular groupings of things that feature in particular special sciences can be conceived of as natural kinds.1 For example, a quick search of the philosophical literature of the past decades comes up with several dozens of papers targeting the question "Is … a natural kind?", many of these concerning kinds of emotions and the emotion category in psychology2 and the category of concepts in psychology / cognitive science.3
Publication details
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-9115-4_14
Full citation:
Reydon, T. A. (2010)., How special are the life sciences?: a view from the natural kinds debate, in F. Stadler (ed.), The present situation in the philosophy of science, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 173-188.