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All the ideas for 'Natural Kinds and Biological Realism', 'Review of 'Aenesidemus'' and 'How to Read Foucault'

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1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 6. Deconstruction

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Post-structuralism focused on exterior determinants of thought, rather than the thinker [Oksala]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / a. Idealism

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Mental presentation are not empirical, but concern the strivings of the self [Fichte]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / b. Transcendental idealism

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The thing-in-itself is an empty dream [Fichte, by Pinkard]

26. Natural Theory / B. Natural Kinds / 1. Natural Kinds

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Some kinds are very explanatory, but others less so, and some not at all [Devitt]

27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 5. Species

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Species pluralism says there are several good accounts of what a species is [Devitt]

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The higher categories are not natural kinds, so the Linnaean hierarchy should be given up [Devitt]