My latest paper – Carving Nature at its Joints, a review

5 Responses to My latest paper – Carving Nature at its Joints, a review

1. Physicalist

   November 25, 2012 at 1:53 pm

   he also addresses the grue paradox and law-derived etiologies, holding that natural law requires natural necessity and natural kinds require natural law.

   Hmm. I guess I’m going to have to read those. Dangit.

   acceptability of Humean supervenience of laws

   Humeanism is a bad (and somewhat confused) position.

   he does not seem to address the existence of centers; a mountain may have a peak even if one cannot easily distinguish where it and an adjacent mountain meet.

   A good point. Is it typically discussed in the literature (on kinds or on vagueness)?

   One sentence is enough to sum the claim up for me: “If there is no teleology in nature, then the Axiological Species Concept fails”

   *chuckle*

   the author argues that determinism is neither entailed by nor entails physicalism.

   obviously

   = The connection with natural kinds lies in the issue of exceptionless or exception-laden kinds in physics.

   ?? I guess I’m going to have to read that one too . . .

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2. John Pieret

   November 25, 2012 at 11:59 pm

   “scientific butchers”

   I’m not quite sure why that tickles me so much.

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3. John The Plumber

   November 26, 2012 at 12:14 am

   I’m disillusioned – I thought you knew everything. – So what are your questions?

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   • Bob O'Hara (@BobOHara)

     November 26, 2012 at 4:00 am

     He does know everything – he just has this strange Socratic idea that by asking these questions we can find enlightenment. Sometimes it even works.

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     • John S. Wilkins

       November 26, 2012 at 7:29 am

       And any errors or mistakes are tests … of my readers.

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