The Nature of Classification: Relationships and Kinds in the Natural Sciences
John S. Wilkins, Malte C. Ebach
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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Année:
2013
Edition:
1st
Editeur::
Palgrave Macmillan
Langue:
english
Pages:
208
ISBN 10:
0230347924
ISBN 13:
9780230347922
Collection:
New Directions in the Philosophy of Science
Fichier:
PDF, 1.21 MB
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english, 2013