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1. plato.stanford.edu › entries › natural-kindsNatural Kinds - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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   Sep 17, 2008 · A natural kind is any such family of co-occurring properties that may be employed in inductive inferences or for the purposes of scientific explanation. Cluster kind realists will readily concede that, depending on the case, environmental pressures may affect and alter the set of properties associated with a kind over time.

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   "Natural kind" is an intellectual grouping, or categorizing of things, in a manner that is reflective of the actual world and not just human interests. [1] Some treat it as a classification identifying some structure of truth and reality that exists whether or not humans recognize it.

3. www.bbc.com › future › articleAre we naturally good or bad? - BBC

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   Jan 14, 2013 · Fundamentally speaking, are humans good or bad? It's a question that has repeatedly been asked throughout humanity. For thousands of years, philosophers have debated whether we have a basically...

4. plato.stanford.edu › entries › human-natureHuman Nature - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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   Mar 15, 2021 · An account of human nature that is essentialist in this sense would take the nature of the human natural kind to be a set of microstructural properties that have two roles: first, they constitute an organism’s membership of the species Homo sapiens. Second, they are causally responsible for the organism manifesting morphological and ...

5. www.britannica.com › topic › human-natureHuman nature | Psychology, Evolution, Biology | Britannica

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   Oct 1, 2024 · Human nature, fundamental dispositions and traits of humans. Theories about the nature of humankind form a part of every culture. In the West, one traditional question centred on whether humans are naturally selfish and competitive (see Thomas Hobbes; John Locke) or social and altruistic (see Karl.

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6. iep.utm.edu › nat-kindNatural Kinds - Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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   Philosophy refers to such categories as natural kinds. Standard examples of such kinds include fundamental physical particles, chemical elements, and biological species. The term natural does not imply that natural kinds ought to categorize only naturally occurring stuff or objects.

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   What is natural kind?

   • " Natural kind " is an intellectual grouping, or categorizing of things, in a manner that is reflective of the actual world and not just human interests. Some treat it as a classification identifying some structure of truth and reality that exists whether or not humans recognize it.

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   How do human types differ from natural kinds?

   • According to recent theoretical studies, it seems that there are three ways in which human kinds differ from natural kinds (Brinkmann, 2005 ): natural kinds are (1) intelligible outside social contexts and (2) indifferent to the descriptions applied to them, and (3) categories and kinds are independent.

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   What are human types?

   • As defined by Ian Hacking, the most significant theorist of human kinds, such human kinds refer to “kinds of people, their behaviour, their condition, kinds of action, kinds of temperament or tendency, kinds of emotion, and kinds of experience” (Hacking, 1995b, pp. 351–352).

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   What is human nature?

   • Correspondingly, “human nature” can pick out either the properties of organisms that constitute their partaking in the species Homo sapiens or the properties of some higher-level entity that constitute it as that species. Human nature might then either be the nature of the species or the nature of species specimens as specimens of the species.

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   Why is there no human nature?

   • Some reasons given for saying there is no human nature are anthropological, grounded in views concerning the relationship between natural and cultural features of human life. Other reasons given are biological, deriving from the character of the human species as, like other species, an essentially historical product of evolution.

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   Do natural kinds exist in psychology?

   • The question is whether natural kinds exist in psychology. Those who argue that they do not (or at least that a significant number of categories in psychology do not refer to natural kinds) often posit that psychological categories instead refer to human kinds.

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   According to recent theoretical studies, it seems that there are three ways in which human kinds differ from natural kinds (Brinkmann, 2005): natural kinds are (1) intelligible outside social contexts and (2) indifferent to the descriptions applied to them, and (3) categories and kinds are independent.