The ontology of natural kinds as the grounds for explanatory generalizations in the life sciences

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Thomas A.C. Reydon
• Subject Area: Theoretical Philosophy
• Term: from 2005 to 2008
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 18470442

• Final Report Year: 2009

Final Report Abstract

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Publications

• Three-dimensionalism and four-dimensionalism from the perspective of the species problem, contributed talk at GAP.6: 6. Kongress der Gesellschaft für Analytische Philosophie (6th Congress of the German Society for Analytic Philosophy), Free University Berlin, 11-14 September 2006
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• How scientists use kinds: Genes and modules as a case study, contributed talk at the 2007 Annual Conference of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science, University of Bristol, 5-6 July 2007
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• How scientists use kinds: Genes and modules as a case study, contributed talk at the 2007 Meeting of the International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB), University of Exeter, 25-29 July 2007
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• Natural kinds as tools for philosophers of science, contributed talk at EPSA07: first conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association, Complutense University, Madrid, 14-17 November 2007
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• Natural kinds in biology? Genes and modules as a case study, invited lecture in the Seminaire de Philosophie de la Biologie de l'lHPST, Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, Universite de Paris 1 (Pantheon - Sorbonne), 5 April 2007
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• (2008): 'Species in three and four dimensions', Synthese 164: 161-184
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• A "middle of the road" account of natural kinds, contributed talk at ECAP6: sixth European Congress of Analytic Philosophy, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, 21- 26 August 2008
  
  
• A "middle of the road" view of natural and functional kinds, invited lecture, departmental colloquium. Department of Philosophy, Delft University of Technology, 3 March 2008
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• How special are the life sciences? A view from the natural kinds debate, invited lecture at the inaugural conference of the ESF research networking programme Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective, University of Vienna, 18-20 December 2008
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• How to fix kind membership: A problem for HPC-theory and a solution, contributed talk at the 21st biennial meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Pittsburgh, 6-9 November 2008
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• Natural kinds und Klassifizierung in Alltag und Wissenschaft, contributed talk at the XXlth Congress of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Philosophie (German Philosophical Association), University of Duisburg-Essen, campus Essen, 15-19 September 2008
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• Natural kinds: Between metaphysical conservatism and epistemological liberalism, invited lecture, colloquium of the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 13 October 2008
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