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'Katzav on limitations of dispositions', 'Causes and Counterfactuals' and 'The Structure of Objects'
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26. Natural Theory / B. Natural Kinds / 1. Natural Kinds
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The natural kinds are objects, processes and properties/relations [Ellis]
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The Kripke/Putnam approach to natural kind terms seems to give them excessive stability [Koslicki]
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26. Natural Theory / B. Natural Kinds / 3. Knowing Kinds
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Natural kinds support inductive inferences, from previous samples to the next one [Koslicki]
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26. Natural Theory / B. Natural Kinds / 4. Source of Kinds
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Concepts for species are either intrinsic structure, or relations like breeding or ancestry [Koslicki]
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26. Natural Theory / B. Natural Kinds / 5. Reference to Natural Kinds
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Should vernacular classifications ever be counted as natural kind terms? [Koslicki]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 1. Causation
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Causal statements are used to explain, to predict, to control, to attribute responsibility, and in theories [Kim]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / c. Counterfactual causation
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Many counterfactuals have nothing to do with causation [Kim, by Tooley]
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Counterfactuals can express four other relations between events, apart from causation [Kim]
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Causation is not the only dependency relation expressed by counterfactuals [Kim]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 2. Types of Laws
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Least action is not a causal law, but a 'global law', describing a global essence [Ellis]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / a. Scientific essentialism
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A species requires a genus, and its essence includes the essence of the genus [Ellis]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / c. Essence and laws
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A hierarchy of natural kinds is elaborate ontology, but needed to explain natural laws [Ellis]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / d. Knowing essences
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Without general principles, we couldn't predict the behaviour of dispositional properties [Ellis]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 9. Counterfactual Claims
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Many counterfactual truths do not imply causation ('if yesterday wasn't Monday, it isn't Tuesday') [Kim, by Psillos]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 11. Against Laws of Nature
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There are apparently no scientific laws concerning biological species [Koslicki]
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