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The Nature of Classification: Relationships and Kinds in the Natural Sciences

By Malte C. Ebach , John S. Wilkins

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2013
ISBN
0230347924, 9780230347922
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1272260 bytes)
Series
New Directions in the Philosophy of Science
Edition
1st
Pages
208\209
Time added
2014-10-10 10:18:04

Description

The Nature of Classification discusses an old and generally ignored issue in the philosophy of science: natural classification. It argues for classification to be a sometimes theory-free activity in science, and discusses the existence of scientific domains, theory-dependence of observation, the inferential relations of classification and theory, and the nature of the classificatory activity in general. It focuses on biological classification, but extends the discussion to physics, psychiatry, meteorology and other special sciences.

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