Workshop on Natural Kinds

The notion of “natural kinds” is ubiquitous in philosophy, sometimes problematized, sometimes taken for granted. Even though the terminology of ‘natural kinds’ got introduced rather recently (in the 19th century), philosophical thought about natural kinds is present already in Greek Antiquity. This workshop on natural kinds, featuring presentations by students, aims to critically reflect on the notion of natural kinds in a diversity of philosophical contexts.

Program

3.20 - 3.30: Welcome

3.30 - 4.00: Luke Miller (Natural kinds: Explanans or explanandum?)

4.00 - 4.30: Mahdiye Fatehi (A new notion of essentialism for biological kinds)

4.30 - 4.40: Break

4.40 - 5.10: Johard Heyl (Should psychiatric kinds be natural, conventional or pluralistic?)

5.10 - 5.40: Dennis Dübeler (Adverse sociopolitical consequences of the term natural kind in psychiatry)

5.40 - 6.00: Break

6.00 - 6.30: Ercan Gürcan (Nature of artifactual-natural kinds)

6.30 - 7.00: Andrés Rubio Krohne (Projectability and functional kinds)

Registration

This is an in-person event and registration is required.