Conceptualism and Objectivity in Locke's Account of Natural Kinds

Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding is considered by many to be the locus classicus of a number of influential arguments for conventionalism, according to which there are no objective, privileged ways of classifying things in the natural world. In the dissertation I argue that Locke ne...

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Main Author: Kuklok, Allison Sara
Other Authors: Simmons, Alison
Language:en_US
Published: Harvard University 2013
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Online Access:http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11079
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:11181128