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- Title
Hegel and Arguments for Natural Kind Essentialism.
- Authors
Knappik, Franz
- Abstract
Natural Kind Essentialism (NKE) is the view that the objects of sciences like physics, chemistry and biology fall into natural kinds, and that such kinds have essences--sets of properties possession of which is necessary and sufficient for kind-membership. Since Putnam and Kripke brought NKE back onto the philosophical agenda, it has found many advocates. But comparatively little attention has been paid to the question of how this view can be positively motivated. After illustrating the current need for an argument for NKE through critical discussions of Putnam's, Kripke's and Ellis's arguments for NKE, this article aims to show that Hegel offers the resources for an original argument for the view. This argument works by deriving metaphysical implications from an account of what it means to understand an explanandum.
- Subjects
ESSENTIALISM (Philosophy); HEGEL, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831
- Publication
Hegel Bulletin, 2021, Vol 42, Issue 3, p368
- ISSN
2051-5367
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/hgl.2017.29