Full Idea
Theoretical terms such as 'mass', 'force', 'motion', 'species' and 'phlogiston' seem to indicate that the Kripke/Putnam approach to natural kind terms is committed to an excessive amount of stability in the meaning and reference of such expressions.
Gist of Idea
The Kripke/Putnam approach to natural kind terms seems to give them excessive stability
Source
Kathrin Koslicki (The Structure of Objects [2008], 8.6.2)
Book Reference
Koslicki,Kathrin: 'The Structure of Objects' [OUP 2008], p.231
A Reaction
This sounds right to me. The notion of 'rigid' designation gives a nice framework for modal logic, but it doesn't seem to fit the shifting patterns of scientific thought.