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metaphysics of science

an AHRC funded research project

Nigel Leary

publications during AHRC "Metaphysics of Science" project

Books

  1. The Semantics and Metaphysics of Natural Kinds (eds. Helen Beebee and Nigel Sabbarton-Leary), Routledge. March 2010. Publishers Website

Articles

  1. “Are Psychiatric Kinds Natural Kinds?”, with Helen Beebee in European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, Vol. 6, No. 1, forthcoming 2010.
  2. “The abuse of the necessary a posteriori”in The Semantics and Metaphysics of Natural Kinds. Eds. Beebee, H; Sabbarton-Leary, N. Routledge, forthcoming 2010.
  3. “How Essentialists Misunderstand Locke” in History of Philosophy Quarterly, Vol. 26, No. 3, pp. 273 – 292, 2009.
  4. “Natural Kinds: (Thick) Essentialism or Promiscuous Realism?” in Philosophical Writings, vol. 34, pp. 5 – 12.

Work in Progress

Articles

  1. “Descriptivist Reference from Metaphysical Essence”.
  2. “Chemical Semantics”.
  3. “Some Problems for Scientific Essentialism”.
  4. “Natural Kinds, Artifact Kinds and Anti-Essentialism”.