ARE NATURAL KINDS REDUCIBLE?

Alexander Bird

Abstract


I examine the possible views concerning the ontological status of natural kinds and the whether any kind of elimination or reduction is feasible. I suggest that no kind of ontological elimination is consistent with essentialism, but essentialism may permit the limited reductionism of the homeostatic property cluster approach.

Keywords


natural kinds; neo Fregeanism; ontology; reducibility; reduction

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