According to the received tradition, the language used to to refer
to natural kinds in scientific discourse remains stable even as
theories about these kinds are refined. In this illuminating book,
Joseph LaPorte argues that scientists do not discover that
sentences about natural kinds, like 'Whales are mammals, not fish',
are true rather than false. Instead, scientists find that these
sentences were vague in the language of earlier speakers and they
refine the meanings of the relevant natural-kind terms to make the
sentences true. Hence, scientists change the meaning of these
terms, This conclusions prompts LaPorte to examine the consequences
of this change in meaning for the issue of incommensurability and
for the progress of science. This book will appeal to students and
professional in the philosophy of science, the philosophy of
biology and the philosophy of language.
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