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  1. A Metaphysics for Scientific Realism: Knowing the Unobservable.Anjan Chakravartty - 2007 - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
    Scientific realism is the view that our best scientific theories give approximately true descriptions of both observable and unobservable aspects of a mind-independent world. Debates between realists and their critics are at the very heart of the philosophy of science. Anjan Chakravartty traces the contemporary evolution of realism by examining the most promising strategies adopted by its proponents in response to the forceful challenges of antirealist sceptics, resulting in a positive proposal for scientific realism today. He examines the core principles (...)
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  • (1 other version)Human Knowledge, Its Scope and Limits.Bertrand Russell - 1949 - Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale 54 (2):198-199.
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  • (1 other version)Human Knowledge, Its Scope and Limits.Bertrand Russell - 1949 - Mind 58 (231):369-378.
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  • Scientific enquiry and natural kinds: from planets to mallards.P. Magnus - 2012 - New York, NY: Palgrave-Macmillan.
    Some scientific categories seem to correspond to genuine features of the world and are indispensable for successful science in some domain; in short, they are natural kinds. This book gives a general account of what it is to be a natural kind and puts the account to work illuminating numerous specific examples.
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  • (2 other versions)Natural kinds.Alexander Bird & Emma Tobin - 1995 - In Edward N. Zalta (ed.), Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford University.
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  • Natural kind terms.Stephen P. Schwartz - 1979 - Cognition 7 (3):301-315.
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  • Locke versus Aristotle on natural kinds.Michael Ayers - 1981 - Journal of Philosophy 78 (5):247-272.
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  • Putnam's theory of natural kinds and their names is not the same as kripke's.Ian Hacking - 2007 - Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology 11 (1):1-24.
    Philosophers have been referring to the “Kripke–Putnam” theory of naturalkind terms for over 30 years. Although there is one common starting point, the two philosophers began with different motivations and presuppositions, and developed in different ways. Putnam’s publications on the topic evolved over the decades, certainly clarifying and probably modifying his analysis, while Kripke published nothing after 1980. The result is two very different theories about natural kinds and their names. Both accept that the meaning of a naturalkind term is (...)
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  • The Origins of 'Natural Kinds': Keeping 'Essentialism' at Bay in the Age of Reform.Gordon McOuat - 2009 - Intellectual History Review 19 (2):211-230.
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  • On Boyd.Ian Hacking - 1991 - Philosophical Studies 61 (1-2):149 - 154.
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  • The relation between induction and probability--(part II.).C. D. Broad - 1920 - Mind 29 (113):11-45.
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  • On the Theory of Logic an Essay.Carveth Read - 1878 - C. Kegan Paul.
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  • On some principles of logic.Carveth Read - 1877 - Mind 2 (7):336-352.
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  • On the doctrine of natural kinds.M. H. Towby - 1887 - Mind 12 (47):434-438.
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  • Mill's doctrine of natural kinds.W. H. S. Monck - 1887 - Mind 12 (48):637-640.
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