Social Categories are Natural Kinds, not Objective Types (and Why it Matters Politically)
There is growing support for the view that social categories like men and women refer to “objective types.” An objective type is a similarity class for which the axis of similarity is an objective rather than nominal or fictional property. Such types are independently real and causally relevant, yet...
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| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2016-08-01
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| Series: | Journal of Social Ontology |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/jso-2015-0039 |