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1 online resource (268 pages) |
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History and Philosophy of Biology |
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History and philosophy of biology.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface ; Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; Notes on the editor; Editor's introduction: activities of kinding in scientific practice; PART I Explaining practices; 1 Explanatory strategies in linguistic practice; 2 The rising of chemical natural kinds through epistemic iteration; 3 Neuroscientific kinds through the lens of scientific practice; PART II Kinding and classification; 4 From a zooming-in model to a co-creation model: towards a more dynamic account of classification and kinds; 5 Protein tokens, types, and taxa |
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6 The performative construction of natural kinds: mathematical application as practice7 Homologizing as kinding; PART III The nature of natural kinds; 8 Theorizing with a purpose: the many kinds of sex; 9 Memory as a cognitive kind: brains, remembering dyads, and exograms; 10 Genuine kinds and scientific reality; PART IV Shaping scientific disciplines; 11 A tale of two dilemmas: cognitive kinds and the extended mind; 12 Mathematical kinds? A case study in nineteenth-century symbolical algebra; 13 Mapping kinds in GIS and cartography; Bibliography; Index |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317215431 |
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1317215435 |
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