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- catalog abstract ""Discovery and Decision takes a fresh look at the philosophical question of scientific classification, by illustrating that the natural world can be divided into competing classes or kinds, all of which are scientifically significant; by showing that scientists make a choice between competing classifications when they carve up the natural world: scientific classification involves both metaphysics (the way the world is) and epistemology (human aims, theories, and commitments); and by introducing a new model of classification (based on recent developments in the psychology of categorization) to explain the differing ways in which scientists carve up the natural world."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11936714.
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""Discovery and Decision takes a fresh look at the philosophical question of scientific classification, by illustrating that the natural world can be divided into competing classes or kinds, all of which are scientifically significant; by showing that scientists make a choice between competing classifications when they carve up the natural world: scientific classification involves both metaphysics (the way the world is) and epistemology (human aims, theories, and commitments); and by introducing a new model of classification (based on recent developments in the psychology of categorization) to explain the differing ways in which scientists carve up the natural world."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1. Introduction: Complexity and the Natural World -- 2. Objectivism -- 3. Internal Realism I -- 4. Internal Realism II: Criticisms and Implications -- 5. The Psychology of Categorization -- 6. Philosophy and the Psychology of Categorization -- 7. Five Interrelated Theses: The Theory Explained -- 8. Philosophical Contexts I: Critiques of Natural Kinds -- 9. Philosophical Contexts II: Contemporary Philosophy of Biology -- 10. Concluding Remarks: Limitation and Classification.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-128) and index.".
- catalog extent "131 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Discovery and decision.".
- catalog identifier "0838638767 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Discovery and decision.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Madison, NJ : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,".
- catalog relation "Discovery and decision.".
- catalog subject "001/.01/2 21".
- catalog subject "BD241 .B785 2000".
- catalog subject "Classification of sciences.".
- catalog subject "Knowledge, Theory of.".
- catalog subject "Metaphysics.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Introduction: Complexity and the Natural World -- 2. Objectivism -- 3. Internal Realism I -- 4. Internal Realism II: Criticisms and Implications -- 5. The Psychology of Categorization -- 6. Philosophy and the Psychology of Categorization -- 7. Five Interrelated Theses: The Theory Explained -- 8. Philosophical Contexts I: Critiques of Natural Kinds -- 9. Philosophical Contexts II: Contemporary Philosophy of Biology -- 10. Concluding Remarks: Limitation and Classification.".
- catalog title "Discovery and decision : exploring the metaphysics and epistemology of scientific classification / Rebecca Bryant.".
- catalog type "text".