113. Muhammad Ali Khalidi | Natural Kinds
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Muhammad Ali Khalidi is Presidential Professor of Philosophy at City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center. His work focuses on the philosophy of science, particularly cognitive science and social science, as well as some work on classical Arabic-Islamic philosophy.
Check out his book in Cambridge Elements on "Natural Kinds"!
https://www.cambridge.org/core/elemen...
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1009005065
00:00 - Preview
00:33 - Introduction
01:51 - Introducing natural kinds
05:20 - Realism and conventionalism
13:28 - Mixed views
20:00 - Folk discourse
25:38 - Conceptual engineering
28:22 - Science
31:25 - Degrees of naturalness
35:05 - How many kinds?
39:18 - Uninstantiated kinds
44:52 - Other sorts of kinds
48:47 - Ontological commitment
51:15 - Arbitrariness
55:08 - Essentialism
1:00:15 - Vagueness
1:03:43 - His approach
1:07:04 - Causation
1:09:57 - Another approach
1:16:15 - Non-natural kinds
1:18:05 - Value of philosophy
1:20:50 - Conclusion
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