Book Manuscript -- Eric M. Funkhouser



The Logical Structure of Kinds:  Toward a Metaphysics of Taxonomies -- Rough Draft

Front Matter

Chapter 1.  Introduction
  1.1 Scope
  1.2 Terminology and Assumptions
  1.3 Relevance and Importance
  1.4 Methodology

Chapter 2.  Specification as Determination
  2.1 Kind-Necessitation
  2.2 Specification and Realization
  2.3 Determination Dimensions and Property Spaces
  2.4 Determinates and Determinables
  2.5 A Model and Analysis
  2.6 Confirming the Analysis
  2.7 Individuating Properties
  2.8 A Major Objection
  2.9 Determinates of a Determinable and Species of a Genus
  2.10 Ontological, Explanatory, and Methodological Priority

  2.11 Philosophical Homework: Three Remaining Questions

Chapter 3.  Multiple Realizability I: Its Role and Importance
  3.1 Sameness through Difference
  3.2 Realization
  3.3 Multiple Realizability and Autonomy
    3.3.1 Ontological Autonomy
    3.3.2 Explanatory Autonomy
    3.3.3 Methodological Autonomy
  3.4 Objections to Alternative Accounts
    3.4.1 Confusing Realization with Determination
    3.4.2 Different Ways of Performing a Function
    3.4.3 Disjunctions, Heterogeneity, and Kim’s Challenge

Chapter 4.  Multiple Realizability II: An Analysis
  4.1 An Analysis
  4.2 Objections and Replies
  4.3 Explanatory Benefits of the Present Analysis
    4.3.1 Weak Ontological Autonomy
    4.3.2 Weak Explanatory Autonomy
    4.3.3 Weak Methodological Autonomy
  4.4 Concepts, Kinds, and Inter-Theoretic Reduction

Chapter 5.  Some Applications
  5.1 Computer Science: Machine Language, Assembly Language, and Higher-Level Languages
  5.2 Cognitive Science: Memory
  5.3 Chemistry: Folk-to-Scientific Identities
  5.4 Singular Realizability is Identity
    5.4.1 Armchair Speculations
    5.4.2 Real-World Examples

Chapter 6.  Causation
  6.1 Some Comments on Causation
  6.2 Alternative #1: Unstructured Events
  6.3 Alternative #2: Structured Events
  6.4 Property Causation: Particularism, Non-Descriptivism, and Hyper-Essentialism
  6.5 Kind-Level Causation
  6.6 Overdetermination and Exclusion

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