Natural Kinds “The Classics” Bibliography
(Courtesy of the AHRC Metaphysics of Science Project)
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Dupré, J. (1981), 'Natural kinds and biological taxa', The Philosophical Review 90 (1), 66--90.
Elder, C. (1995), 'A Different Kind of Natural Kind', Australasian Journal of Philosophy 73,
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Elder, C. (1994), 'Higher and Lower Level Essential Properties', American Philosophical
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Ellis, B. (1996), Natural Kinds and Natural Kind Reasoning'Natural Kinds, Laws of Nature and
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Ellis, B. (1994), The Fundamental Importance of Natural Kinds'Victorian Centre for the
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Ellis, B. & Lierse, C. (1994), 'Dispositional Essentialism', Australasian Journal of Philosophy
72, 27--45.
Ereshefsky, M. (2001), The Poverty of the Linnaean Hierarchy: A Philosophical Study of
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Ereshefsky, M. (1998), 'Species Pluralism and Anti-Realism', Philosophy of Science 65(1), 103-120.
Ereshefsky, M. (1991), 'Species, Higher Taxa, and the Units of Evolution', Philosophy of Science
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Fine, A. (1994), 'Essence and Modality', Philosophical Perspectives 8, 1--16.
Fodor, J. (1998), 'Special Sciences : Still Autonomous After all these Years', Philosophical
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Ghiselin, M. (2002), 'Species Concepts : The Basis for Controversy and Reconciliation', Fish and
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Ghiselin, M. (1999), Natural Kinds and Supraorganismal Individuals, in D. Medin & S. Atran,
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Ghiselin, M. (1987), 'Species Concepts, Individuality, and Objectivity', Biology and Philosophy
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Ghiselin, M. (1975), 'A Radical Solution to the Species Problem', Systematic Zoology 23, 536544.
Griffiths, P. (2004), 'Emotions as Natural and Normative Kinds', Philosophy of Science 71, 901911.
Griffiths, P. E. (1994), 'Cladistic Classification and Functional Explanation', Philosophy of
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Hacking, I. (2007), 'Natural Kinds: Rosy Dawn, Scholastic Twilight', Royal Institute of
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Hacking, I. (2002), 'How "Natural" Are "Kinds" of Sexual Orientation?', Law and Philosophy
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Hacking, I. (1999), The Social Construction of What?, Harvard University Press.
Hacking, I. (1991), 'On Boyd', Philosophical Studies 61, 109--26.
Hacking, I. (1991), 'A Tradition of Natural Kinds', Philosophical Studies 61, 109--26.
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Hull, D. (1998), Taxonomy, in Edward Craig, ed.,'Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy',
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Hull, D. L. (1978), 'A Matter of Individuality', Philosophy of Science 45(3), 335--360.
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Kitcher, P. (1989), Some Puzzles About Species, in M. Ruse, ed.,'What the Philosophy of
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LaPorte, J. (2000), 'Rigidity and Kind', Philosophical Studies 97, 293--316.
LaPorte, J. (1997), 'Essential Membership', Philosophy of Science 64(1), 96--112.
LaPorte, J. (1996), 'Chemical Kind Term Reference and the Discovery of Essence', Nous 30(1),
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Levin, A. (2001), 'Individualism, Type Specimens, and the Scrutability of Species Membership',
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Lewis, D. (1986), On the Plurality of Worlds, Blackwell.
Lowe, E. (2006), The Four-Category Ontology: A Metaphysical Foundation for Natural Science,
Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Lowe, E. (1998), The Possibility of Metaphysics : Substance, Identity and Time, Oxford
Clarendon Press.
Lowe, E. J. (2007), 'A Problem for A Posteriori Essentialism concerning Natural Kinds', Analysis
67, 286--92.
Lowe, E. J. (1997), 'Ontological Categories and Natural Kinds', Philosophical Papers 26, 29--46.
Marti, G. (2004), 'Rigidity and General Terms', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 104, 129-146.
Marti, G. (2003), 'The Question of Rigidity in New Theories of Reference', No/^(u)s 37, 161--79.
Mayr, E. (1996), 'What Is a Species, and What Is Not?', Philosophy of Science 63(2), 262--277.
Mayr, E. (1987), 'The Ontological Status of Species: Scientific Progress and Philosophical
Terminology', Biology and Philosophy 2, 145--66.
Mellor, D. H. (1977), 'Natural Kinds', The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 28(4),
299--312.
Millikan, R. G. (1999), 'Historical Kinds and the Special Sciences', Philosophical Studies 95(1),
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Mumford, S. (2005), 'Kinds, Essences, Powers', Ratio 18 : 4, 420--436.
Needham, P. (2002), 'The Discovery that Water is H2O', International Studies in the Philosophy
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Needham, P. (2000), 'What is Water?', Analysis, 13--21.
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Putman, D. A. (1982), 'Natural Kinds and Human Artifacts', Mind 91(363), 418--419.
Putnam, H. (1992), Is It Necessary That Water Is H2O?, in L. E. Hahn, ed.,'The Philosophy of A.
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Salmon, N. (1982), Reference and Essence, Basil Blackwell.
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Shoemaker, S. (2003), Identity, Cause and Mind, Oxford University Press.
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Soames, S. (2004), 'Knowledge of Manifest Natural Kinds', Facta Philosophica 6, 159-181.
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Sober, E. (1984), 'Sets, Species, and Evolution: Comments on Philip Kitcher's"Species"',
Philosophy of Science 51(2), 334--341.
Sober, E. (1980), 'Evolution, Population Thinking, and Essentialism', Philosophy of Science
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Sosa, E. (1997), 'Water, Drink, and "Moral Kinds"', Philosophical Issues 8, 303--312.
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Van Brakel, J. (1993), 'The Plasticity of Categories: The Case of Colour', The British Journal for
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Van Brakel, J. (1992), 'Natural Kinds and Manifest Forms of Life', Dialectica.
Walsh, D. M. (2006), 'Evolutionary Essentialism', British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
57(2), 425--448.
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Wilkerson, T. (1988), 'Natural Kinds', Philosophy 63, 29-42.
Wilkerson, T. E. (1993), 'Species, Essences and the Names of Natural Kinds', The Philosophical
Quarterly 43(170), 1--19.
Wilson, R. A. (1999), Species: new interdisciplinary essays, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
Wilson, R. A. (1996), 'Promiscuous Realism', The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
47(2), 303--316.