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The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science | 2017

Natural Kinds and Natural Kind Terms : Myth and Reality

Sören Häggqvist; Åsa Wikforss

The article examines the role of natural kinds in semantic theorizing, which has largely been conducted in isolation from relevant work in science, metaphysics, and philosophy of science. We argue that the Kripke–Putnam account of natural kind terms, despite recent claims to the contrary, depends on a certain metaphysics of natural kinds; that the metaphysics usually assumed—micro-essentialism—is untenable even in a ‘placeholder’ version; and that the currently popular homeostatic property cluster theory of natural kinds is correct only to an extent that fails to vindicate the Kripke–Putnam account. This undermines the metasemantics required for anti-descriptivist semantics. 1 Introduction 2 From Semantics to Metaphysics 3 Metaphysics, Part I: The Demise of Micro-essentialism   3.1 Original micro-essentialism   3.2 Placeholder essentialism 4 Metaphysics, Part II: Homeostatic Property Cluster Theory 5 Prospects for Natural Kind Term Semantics 1 Introduction 2 From Semantics to Metaphysics 3 Metaphysics, Part I: The Demise of Micro-essentialism   3.1 Original micro-essentialism   3.2 Placeholder essentialism   3.1 Original micro-essentialism   3.2 Placeholder essentialism 4 Metaphysics, Part II: Homeostatic Property Cluster Theory 5 Prospects for Natural Kind Term Semantics


Inquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines | 2015

Judgements, Expertise, and Counterfactuals

Sören Häggqvist

Abstract In The Philosophy of Philosophy (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007), Tim Williamson has offered a sophisticated account of thought experiments and of modal epistemology. More recently, he has also engaged in a variant of the so-called ‘expertise defence’ of traditional philosophical methodology. In this paper I argue that if Williamson’s account of thought experiments and of modal epistemology is right, this seriously undermines his version of the expertise defence.


Archive | 2007

Gedankenexperimente in der Philosophie

Daniel Cohnitz; Sören Häggqvist


Erkenntnis | 2007

Externalism and a posteriori semantics

Sören Häggqvist; Åsa Wikforss


Studia Philosophica Estonica | 2010

The Role of Intuitions in Philosophy

Daniel Cohnitz; Sören Häggqvist


Philosophy Compass | 2013

Teleosemantics: Etiological Foundations

Sören Häggqvist


Archive | 2009

The role of intuitions in philosophical methodology

Daniel Cohnitz; Sören Häggqvist


Archive | 2015

Experimental Semantics: The Case of Natural Kind Terms

Åsa Wikforss; Sören Häggqvist


Topoi-an International Review of Philosophy | 2017

Thought Experiments, Formalization, and Disagreement

Sören Häggqvist


Archive | 2017

Thought experiments in current metaphilosophical debates

Daniel Cohnitz; Sören Häggqvist

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