Letting Go of “Natural Kind”: Toward a Multidimensional Framework of Nonarbitrary Classification
Letting Go of “Natural Kind”: Toward a Multidimensional Framework of Nonarbitrary Classification
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放弃“自然种类”：迈向非任意分类的多维框架
DOI：
10.1086/694835
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发表时间：
2018
影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
David Ludwig
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作者：
David Ludwig
本文利用民族生物学分类的案例研究，提出了关于自然种类辩论状态的正面和负面论文。一方面，我认为当前对自然种类的描述可以整合到一个多维框架中，以增进对民族生物学分类实践的理解。另一方面，我认为这样的多维框架并没有为“自然类”概念留下任何实质性的工作，并且试图对自然性进行一般性解释已经成为理解分类实践的障碍。
This article uses the case study of ethnobiological classification to develop a positive and a negative thesis about the state of natural kind debates. On the one hand, I argue that current accounts of natural kinds can be integrated in a multidimensional framework that advances understanding of classificatory practices in ethnobiology. On the other hand, I argue that such a multidimensional framework does not leave any substantial work for the notion “natural kind” and that attempts to formulate a general account of naturalness have become an obstacle to understanding classificatory practices.