Natural diversity: A neo-essentialist misconstrual of homeostatic property cluster theory in natural kind debates |
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Authors: | Joachim Lipski |
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Institution: | Department of Arabic, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel |
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Abstract: | In natural kind debates, Boyd's famous Homeostatic Property Cluster theory (HPC) is often misconstrued in two ways: Not only is it thought to make for a normative standard for natural kinds, but also to require the homeostatic mechanisms underlying nomological property clusters to be uniform. My argument for the illegitimacy of both overgeneralizations, both on systematic as well as exegetical grounds, is based on the misconstrued view's failure to account for functional kinds in science. I illustrate the combination of these two misconstruals with recent entries into the natural kind debate about emotions. Finally, I examine and reject Stich's “Kornblith-Devitt method” as a potential justification of these misconstruals. |
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Keywords: | Natural kinds Homeostatic property clusters Scientific explanation Mechanism Functionalism Theory revision |
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