Functional kinds: a skeptical look.
The functionalist approach to kinds has suffered recently due to its association with law-based approaches to induction and explanation. Philosophers of science increasingly view nomological methods as inappropriate for the special sciences like psychology and biology, which has led to a surge of in...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 192; no. 12; pp. 3915 - 3943 |
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Springer Nature
Dec2015
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