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CATEGORIES:Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of
  Science
SUMMARY:How to carve nature across the joints without aban
 doning Kripke-Putnam semantics - Helen Beebee (Uni
 versity of Birmingham)
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URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/28973
DESCRIPTION:Kripke-Putnam semantics (KP) for natural kind term
 s\, according to which truths like 'water is H2O' 
 are metaphysically necessary but knowable only a p
 osteriori\, is often taken to have significant met
 aphysical consequences. In particular\, it is ofte
 n taken to justify 'natural kind essentialism'. I 
 argue that the metaphysical consequences of KP are
  in fact extremely weak\; in particular\, KP is co
 nsistent both with species pluralism (the view tha
 t there are several\, equally 'correct' ways of cl
 assifying organisms) and with Kuhnian relativism.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philoso
 phy of Science
CONTACT:Nicky Reeves
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