Natural Kinds and the Philosophy of Chemistry: A Bibliography
(Courtesy of the AHRC Metaphysics of Science Project)
Abbott, B. (1997), 'A Note on the Nature of "Water"', Mind 106(422), 311--319.
Bird, A. & Tobin, E. (2008), 'Natural Kinds', Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Earley, J. E. (1995), 'Why There is No Salt in the Sea', Foundations of Chemistry 7(1), 85--102.
Ellis, B. (2002), The Philosophy of Nature, Acumen.
Ellis, B. (2001), Scientific Essentialism, Cambridge University Press.
Ellis, B. (1996), Natural Kinds and Natural Kind Reasoning'Natural Kinds, Laws of Nature and
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Harré, R. (2005), 'Chemical Kinds and Essences Revisited', Foundations of Chemistry 7(1), 7-30.
Hendry, R. (2006), 'Elements, Compounds and Other Chemical Kinds', Philosophy of Science
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Hendry, R. (2005), 'Lavoisier and Mendeleev on the Elements', Foundations of Chemistry 7(1),
31--48.
Kripke, S. (1972), Naming and Necessity, in G.Harman & D. Davidson, ed.,'Semantics of
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Kripke, S. (1971), Identity and Necessity'Identity and Individuation', New York University
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Kuhn, T. S. (2000), The Road Since Structure, University of Chicago Press.
Laporte, J. (2004), Natural Kinds and Conceptual Change, Cambridge University Press.
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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Lowe, E. (2006), The Four-Category Ontology: A Metaphysical Foundation for Natural Science,
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Lowe, E. (1998), The Possibility of Metaphysics : Substance, Identity and Time, Oxford
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Lowe, E. J. (2007), 'A Problem for A Posteriori Essentialism concerning Natural Kinds', Analysis
67, 286--92.
Needham, P. (2007), 'Macroscopic Mixtures', Journal of Philosophy 104, 26--52.
Needham, P. (2002), 'The Discovery that Water is H2O', International Studies in the Philosophy
of Science 16, 205--226.
Needham, P. (2000), 'What is Water?', Analysis, 13--21.
Needham, P. (1995), 'Mixtures and Modality', Foundations of Chemistry 7(1), 103--118.
Needham, P. (1993), 'Stuff', Australasian Journal of Philosophy 71, 270--290.
Putnam, H. (1992), Is It Necessary That Water Is H2O?, in L. E. Hahn, ed.,'The Philosophy of A.
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Putnam, H. (1975), The Meaning of `Meaning''Mind, Language and Reality: Philosophical
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Putnam, H. (1973), 'Meaning and Reference', The Journal of Philosophy 70(19), 699--711.
Rosenfeld, S. & Bhushan, N. (2000), Chemical Synthesis: Complexity, Similarity, Natural
Kinds, and the Evolution of a 'Logic', in Bhushan & Rosenfeld, ed.,'Of Minds and Molecules',
Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 187--207.
Sharvy, R. (1983), 'Aristotle on Mixtures', The Journal of Philosophy 80(8), 439--457.
Simonian, J. (2005), 'The Paradoxes of Chemical Classification : Why'water is H2O'is not an
identity statement', Foundations of Chemistry 7(1), 49--56.
Sosa, E. (1997), 'Water, Drink, and "Moral Kinds"', Philosophical Issues 8, 303--312.
Stenwall, R. (2007), 'Aspect Kinds', Boston studies in the philosophy of science 252, 193--203.
Van Brakel, J. (1995), 'On the Inventors of XYZ', Foundations of Chemistry 7, 57-84.
Van Brakel, J. (1993), 'The Plasticity of Categories: The Case of Colour', The British Journal for
the Philosophy of Science 44(1), 103--135.
Van Brakel, J. (1992), 'Natural Kinds and Manifest Forms of Life', Dialectica.
Vihaleem, R. (May 2003), 'Natural Kinds, Explanation and Essentialism in Chemistry', Annals of
the New York Academy of Sciences 988(1), 59-70.
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Zimmerman, D. W. (1995), 'Theories of Masses and Problems of Constitution', The
Philosophical Review 104(1), 53--110.
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