Guest Stewart Umphrey on Natural Kinds (Part Two)

Continuing our interview about Natural Kinds and Genesis: The Classification of Material Entities. Now we get down to it: Given the argument for continuants in part 1, Stewart talks about how that founds the idea of a natural kind (the nature of a continuant) and considers what might count as one. Should the fact that there are borderline cases, i.e., vagueness in a concept, mean that that concept can't name a natural kind? Can the sciences just tell us what the natural kinds are?

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End song: "Destroy the Box" by Wertico, Cain and Gray from Organic Architecture (2014). Hear Paul Wertico and David Cain interviewed on Nakedly Examined Music #30.

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End song: "Destroy the Box" by Wertico, Cain and Gray from Organic Architecture (2014), as elucidated on Nakedly Examined Music #30. #philosophy #ontology #universals #particulars #kinds #nominalism Go to the blog: https://partiallyexaminedlife.com/2017/05/08/ep163-2-stewart-umphrey/