Natural Kinds and Conceptual Change

by Joseph LaPorte

Book Overview

According to the received tradition, the language used to to refer to natural kinds in scientific discourse remains stable even as theories about these kinds are refined. In this illuminating book, Joseph LaPorte argues that scientists do not discover that sentences about natural kinds, like 'Whales are mammals, not fish', are true rather than false. Instead, scientists find that these sentences were vague in the language of earlier speakers and they...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521108101
• ISBN13: 9780521108102
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"