TY  - BOOK
AU  - Khalidi, Muhammad Ali
TI  - Natural categories and human kinds: classification in the natural and social sciences 
SN  - 9781107521728
U1  - 001.012 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - New York
PB  - Cambridge university press
KW  - Categories (Philosophy)
KW  - Classification
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Metaphysical realism and essentialism about kinds
The naturalness of kinds
Kinds in the special sciences
Kinds in the biological and social sciences
Kinds of natural kinds
Kinds naturalized
N2  - Drawing on a thorough examination of classification in both the natural and social sciences, this book challenges essentialism and advocates for a naturalist perspective on natural kinds. Through case studies from a range of scientific fields, including fluid mechanics, virology, polymer science, and psychiatry, the author argues that natural kinds are nodes within causal networks. Based on this perspective, he asserts that natural kinds can exist not only in the natural sciences but also in the social sciences
ER  -