Games and Kinds
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 8398947 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Cailin O’connor (0000-0002-8351-2575, University of California, Irvine, autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 2019 |
| Volume | 70 |
| Fascículo | 3 |
| Páginas | 719-745 |
| Data de publicação | 2019-09-01 |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0007-0882 • E-ISSN: 1464-3537 |
| Editora | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/bjps/axx027 |
| OpenAlex | W2549383861 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 4 |
| Referências citadas | 24 |
In response to those who argue for ‘property cluster’ views of natural kinds, I use evolutionary models of similarity-maximizing games to assess the claim that linguistic terms appropriately track sets of objects that cluster in property spaces. As I show, there are two sorts of ways this can fail to happen. First, evolved terms that do respect property structure in some senses can be conventional nonetheless. Second, and more crucially, because the function of linguistic terms is to facilitate successful action in the world, when such success is based on something other than property clusters, we should not expect our terms to track those clusters. The models help make this second point salient by highlighting a dubious assumption underlying some versions of the cluster kinds view—that property clusters lead to successful generalization and induction in a straightforward way. As I point out, those who support property cluster kinds as natural can revert to a promiscuous realism in response to these observations. 1. Introduction2. Cluster Kinds3. Models and Results 3.1. Similarity-maximizing games3.2. Voronoi languages, clusters, and categories4. Conventionality and Functionality in Kind Terms 4.1. Conventional categories4.2. Functionality and categories5. Unnatural Perceptual Categories6. The Payoff Relevance of Property Space7. Conclusion
Action (physics) · Cluster (spacecraft) · Conflation · Epistemology · Function (biology) · Generalization · Geography · Mathematical economics · Natural (archaeology) · Point (geometry) · Political science · Property (philosophy) · Relevance (law) · Similarity (geometry) · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation · Language and cultural evolution · Mathematics · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Theoretical Computer Science
The disorder of things
Natural Categories and Human Kinds
Convention
Learning in extensive-form games
What Realism Implies and What it Does Not
Historical Kinds and the “Special Sciences”
Beyond Concepts
Realism, anti-foundationalism and the enthusiasm for natural kinds
Dynamic Partitioning and the Conventionality of Kinds
Ambiguity Is Kinda Good Sometimes
Evolving Perceptual Categories
Homeostasis, Higher Taxa, and Monophyly
Vagueness and Imprecise Imitation in Signalling Games
Evolving to Generalize
Color Categories Are Culturally Diverse in Cognition as Well as in Language
| Citações por ano | 1 |
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| Intervalo de citações | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Altamente citado | Não |