Book of Donmon Teith

Essentialism--roughly, the view that natural kinds have discrete essences, generating truths that are necessary but knowable only a posteriori--is an increasing

Reflections on the metaphysics and epistemology of classification from a distinguished group of philosophers. Contemporary discussions of the success of science

What makes something the kind of thing it is? And do certain objects have a special status in the scheme of things? According to Aristotle, some things (and par

This collection brings together the latest new work within an emerging philosophical discipline: the metaphysics of science. A new definition of this line of ph

Meaning Diminished examines the complex relationship between semantic analysis and metaphysical inquiry. Kenneth A. Taylor argues that we should expect linguist