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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Published in:	Journal of Social Ontology
Main Author:	Bach Theodore
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	University of Vienna 2016-08-01
Subjects:	natural kind objective type gender historical lineage empirical adequacy semantic externalism race conceptual engineering
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1515/jso-2015-0039