The Metaphysics of Natural Kinds
| dc.contributor.author | Fasiku Gbenga | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-08-20T09:09:52Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-08-20T09:09:52Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2005 | |
| dc.description | i-x,1-176 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The study examined the arguments between essentialists and anti-essentialists, on the one hand, and realists and anti-realists, on the other, on the existence of natural kinds. It defended essentialist arguments justifying the existence of natural kinds. It also assessed some influential criticisms of essentialism, with a view to establishing their adequacy or otherwise. Furthermore, it explored how biological taxonomy could support essentialism and how this position opened up a debate in the Philosophy of Science about the reality of theoretical entities through which the existence of kinds in nature could be further established. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Fasiku, G. (2005). The Metaphysics of Natural Kinds. Department of Philosophy, Obafemi Awolowo University. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://ir.oauife.edu.ng/handle/123456789/6705 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Department of Philosophy, Obafemi Awolowo University | |
| dc.title | The Metaphysics of Natural Kinds | |
| dc.type | Thesis |