Artefact Kinds Ontology and the Human-Made World
This book is concerned with two intimately related topics of metaphysics: the identity of entities and the foundations of classification. What it adds to previous discussions of these topics is that it addresses them with respect to human-made entities, t
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Maarten Franssen Peter Kroes Thomas A.C. Reydon Pieter E. Vermaas Editors
Artefact Kinds
Ontology and the Human-Made World
Artefact Kinds
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STUDIES IN EPISTEMOLOGY, LOGIC, METHODOLOGY, AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Editors-in-Chief: VINCENT F. HENDRICKS, University of Copenhagen, Denmark JOHN SYMONS, University of Texas at El Paso, U.S.A.
Honorary Editor: JAAKKO HINTIKKA, Boston University, U.S.A.
Editors: DIRK VAN DALEN, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands THEO A.F. KUIPERS, University of Groningen, The Netherlands TEDDY SEIDENFELD, Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A. PATRICK SUPPES, Stanford University, California, U.S.A. JAN WOLEŃSKI, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
VOLUME 365 For further volumes: http://www.springer.com/series/6607
Maarten Franssen • Peter Kroes Thomas A.C. Reydon • Pieter E. Vermaas Editors
Artefact Kinds Ontology and the Human-Made World
Editors Maarten Franssen Section of Philosophy Delft University of Technology Delft, The Netherlands
Peter Kroes Section of Philosophy Delft University of Technology Delft, The Netherlands
Thomas A.C. Reydon Institut für Philosophie Leibniz Universität Hannover Hannover, Germany
Pieter E. Vermaas Section of Philosophy Delft University of Technology Delft, The Netherlands
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