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Philosophy 750

Natural Kinds

Graduate Seminar

Bence Nanay

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Fall 2008

Announcements

11/21/08: Don’t forget that the papers are due on the 4^th of December in class.

11/03/08: Readings for next time: Kitcher 2007 (compulsory) and Hacking 2005 (recommended).

10/24/08: Readings for next week: Chapter eight of the Dupré book (compulsory) and David Hull’s paper on human nature (recommended).

10/16/08: Readings for next week: Marc Ereshefsky’s paper on biological essentialism. The Mayr’s paper is not assigned in the end.

10/ö7/08: Change in the readings for the class on the 23^rd of October: instead of the Okasha paper, we will read a forthcoming paper by Marc Ereshefsky.

10/ö6/08: Readings for next class: Chapter one of the Dupré book. Recommended: chapter five.

09/25/08: Readings for next week: Hacking 2007b (compulsory) and Sorensen forthcoming (recommended).

09/22/08: The reading for this week is my forthcoming paper on three ways of resisting essentialism about natural kinds.

09/13/08: The reading for next week is from the LaPorte book, but here are the links for the two recommended readings: Mellor 1977 and Reid 2002.

09/07/08: I reshuffled some of the assigned readings on the syllabus, please check it (link above).

09/04/08: Readings for next week: Bird forthcoming (sections 1 and 2.1) and (recommended) Chapter 1 of the LaPorte book.

08/28/08: Readings for next week: Quine 1969 and (recommended) Goodman 1954.

07/30/08: The (more or less) final syllabus is above