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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الحاوية / القاعدة:	Journal of Social Ontology
المؤلف الرئيسي:	Bach Theodore
التنسيق:	مقال
اللغة:	الإنجليزية
منشور في:	University of Vienna 2016-08-01
الموضوعات:	natural kind objective type gender historical lineage empirical adequacy semantic externalism race conceptual engineering
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:	https://doi.org/10.1515/jso-2015-0039