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
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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
Bibliography
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