Robert Boyle and Natural Kinds
This paper studies Robert Boyle's account of kinds and classification. A number of commentators have argued that, for Boyle, classifications are inevitably the product of conventions. Others have challenged this reading, arguing that, according to Boyle, the corpuscular makeup of bodies gives r...
Saved in:
Published in | Journal of the American Philosophical Association Vol. 9; no. 3; pp. 554 - 573 |
---|---|
Main Authors | , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
Published |
Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
01.09.2023
|
Subjects | |
Online Access | Get full text |
Cover
Loading…
Abstract | This paper studies Robert Boyle's account of kinds and classification. A number of commentators have argued that, for Boyle, classifications are inevitably the product of conventions. Others have challenged this reading, arguing that, according to Boyle, the corpuscular makeup of bodies gives rise to hard-edged natural kinds and classes. We argue that Boyle's position is more complicated than the available realist and conventionalist readings acknowledge. We argue that, according to Boyle, the individuation of kinds was to some degree the result of convention. At the same time, however, Boyle held that our classificatory practices are subject to constraints. We identify some of these constraints by turning to Boyle's discussion of the late scholastic debate about the plurality of forms, in particular the contributions of Jacopo Zabarella and Daniel Sennert. In this way, we clarify how Boyle strikes a balance between realist and conventionalist elements in his treatment of kinds. |
---|---|
AbstractList | This paper studies Robert Boyle's account of kinds and classification. A number of commentators have argued that, for Boyle, classifications are inevitably the product of conventions. Others have challenged this reading, arguing that, according to Boyle, the corpuscular makeup of bodies gives rise to hard-edged natural kinds and classes. We argue that Boyle's position is more complicated than the available realist and conventionalist readings acknowledge. We argue that, according to Boyle, the individuation of kinds was to some degree the result of convention. At the same time, however, Boyle held that our classificatory practices are subject to constraints. We identify some of these constraints by turning to Boyle's discussion of the late scholastic debate about the plurality of forms, in particular the contributions of Jacopo Zabarella and Daniel Sennert. In this way, we clarify how Boyle strikes a balance between realist and conventionalist elements in his treatment of kinds. |
Author | ADRIAENSSEN, HAN THOMAS NAUTA, LODI |
Author_xml | – sequence: 1 givenname: HAN THOMAS surname: ADRIAENSSEN fullname: ADRIAENSSEN, HAN THOMAS – sequence: 2 givenname: LODI surname: NAUTA fullname: NAUTA, LODI |
BookMark | eNo9kEtLAzEURoNUsNau3MuAS5nx3kxes9TiC4uCdB-SmQRaxsmYTBf996ZUXN27OHwHziWZDWFwhFwjVAgo781oKgqUVijPyJwCr0vGFJ_9_1JekGVKOwBATpWSYk5uvoJ1cSoew6F3hRm64sNM-2j64n07dOmKnHvTJ7f8uwuyeX7arF7L9efL2-phXbaoxFRa26mGM7SeQXZlVQudBSYFdcx4LqwSnDrVNuDbjIiGo2edc-gtel4vyO1pdozhZ-_SpHdhH4ds1FQ1tG6YkipTdyeqjSGl6Lwe4_bbxING0McEOifQxwQaZf0LmLFNfg |
Cites_doi | 10.1080/09608780701604955 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199567911.001.0001 10.5206/ls.2018.1512 10.7208/chicago/9780226923789.001.0001 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199589777.001.0001 10.1163/157338297X00159 10.1007/978-94-007-1005-4 10.1093/oso/9780199203949.003.0006 10.1093/oso/9780197502501.001.0001 10.1162/POSC_a_00036 10.7208/chicago/9780226577036.001.0001 10.2307/2025955 10.7591/9781501734212 10.1353/hph.2005.0117 10.1215/00318108-113-1-31 |
ContentType | Journal Article |
Copyright | Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the American Philosophical Association. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution and reproduction, provided the original article is properly cited. (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License. |
Copyright_xml | – notice: Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the American Philosophical Association. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution and reproduction, provided the original article is properly cited. (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License. |
DBID | AAYXX CITATION AABKS ABSDQ ABUWG AFKRA AVQMV AZQEC BENPR CCPQU DWQXO K50 M1D PQEST PQQKQ PQUKI PRINS |
DOI | 10.1017/apa.2022.17 |
DatabaseName | CrossRef Philosophy Collection Philosophy Database ProQuest Central (Alumni) ProQuest Central Arts Premium Collection ProQuest Central Essentials ProQuest Central ProQuest One Community College ProQuest Central Korea Art, Design & Architecture Collection Arts & Humanities Database ProQuest One Academic Eastern Edition (DO NOT USE) ProQuest One Academic ProQuest One Academic UKI Edition ProQuest Central China |
DatabaseTitle | CrossRef ProQuest Central Essentials ProQuest One Academic Eastern Edition ProQuest Central (Alumni Edition) ProQuest One Community College ProQuest Central China Philosophy Collection ProQuest Central Arts Premium Collection ProQuest One Academic UKI Edition ProQuest Central Korea Arts & Humanities Full Text ProQuest Art, Design and Architecture Collection ProQuest One Academic Philosophy Database |
DatabaseTitleList | CrossRef ProQuest Central Essentials |
Database_xml | – sequence: 1 dbid: BENPR name: ProQuest Central url: https://www.proquest.com/central sourceTypes: Aggregation Database |
DeliveryMethod | fulltext_linktorsrc |
Discipline | Philosophy |
EISSN | 2053-4485 |
EndPage | 573 |
ExternalDocumentID | 10_1017_apa_2022_17 |
GroupedDBID | 09C 09D 0R~ 3V. AABES AABKS AABWE AACJH AAGFV AAKTX AALKF AAPYI AARAB AASVR AAUKB AAYXX ABBXD ABJNI ABROB ABSDQ ABTND ABUWG ABZCX ACABY ACDLN ACGFS ACJZB ACUIJ ACYZP ACZBM ACZBN ADFEC ADKIL ADOVH ADTCA ADVJH AEBAK AEHGV AEYYC AFFUJ AFKQG AFKRA AFKRZ AFLVW AGABE AGHGI AGJUD AHQXX AHRGI AIGNW AIHIV AISIE AJPFC AJQAS ALMA_UNASSIGNED_HOLDINGS ANFVQ AOWSX ATUCA AUXHV AVDNQ AVQMV AZQEC BBLKV BENPR BMAJL BPHCQ CCPQU CCQAD CFAFE CGMFO CHEAL CITATION CJCSC DOHLZ DWQXO EBS EJD HOVLH IH6 IOEEP IS6 JHPGK JOSPZ JPPIE JQKCU JRMXA K50 M1D NIKVX PQQKQ PROAC RCA ROL S6U T9M UT1 WFFJZ ZYDXJ PQEST PQUKI PRINS |
ID | FETCH-LOGICAL-c186t-bbd89541bf40053447c0db04762e4af56b8652e8c90fc4006951f4dee1fb1f53 |
IEDL.DBID | M1D |
ISSN | 2053-4477 |
IngestDate | Thu Oct 10 21:56:50 EDT 2024 Fri Dec 06 06:39:20 EST 2024 |
IsDoiOpenAccess | true |
IsOpenAccess | true |
IsPeerReviewed | true |
IsScholarly | true |
Issue | 3 |
Language | English |
LinkModel | DirectLink |
MergedId | FETCHMERGED-LOGICAL-c186t-bbd89541bf40053447c0db04762e4af56b8652e8c90fc4006951f4dee1fb1f53 |
OpenAccessLink | https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/C28AB3F49CBDC4D1157CAFB6BD2157A6/S2053447722000173a.pdf/div-class-title-robert-boyle-and-natural-kinds-div.pdf |
PQID | 2892394878 |
PQPubID | 2045000 |
PageCount | 20 |
ParticipantIDs | proquest_journals_2892394878 crossref_primary_10_1017_apa_2022_17 |
PublicationCentury | 2000 |
PublicationDate | 2023-09-00 20230901 |
PublicationDateYYYYMMDD | 2023-09-01 |
PublicationDate_xml | – month: 09 year: 2023 text: 2023-09-00 |
PublicationDecade | 2020 |
PublicationPlace | Cambridge |
PublicationPlace_xml | – name: Cambridge |
PublicationTitle | Journal of the American Philosophical Association |
PublicationYear | 2023 |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Publisher_xml | – name: Cambridge University Press |
References | S2053447722000173_ref10 Jolley (S2053447722000173_ref11) 1999 S2053447722000173_ref21 S2053447722000173_ref20 Woolhouse (S2053447722000173_ref23) 1971 Sennert (S2053447722000173_ref22) 1650 Jones (S2053447722000173_ref14) 2019 Des Chene (S2053447722000173_ref9) 1996 S2053447722000173_ref2 S2053447722000173_ref19 S2053447722000173_ref3 Zabarella (S2053447722000173_ref24) 1590 Boyle (S2053447722000173_ref7) 1999 S2053447722000173_ref6 Anstey (S2053447722000173_ref1) 2000 Ayers (S2053447722000173_ref4) 1997; 28 S2053447722000173_ref5 S2053447722000173_ref12 S2053447722000173_ref8 S2053447722000173_ref13 S2053447722000173_ref16 Kaufman (S2053447722000173_ref15) 2006; 3 S2053447722000173_ref18 S2053447722000173_ref17 |
References_xml | – volume-title: Physiologia. Natural Philosophy in Late Aristotelian and Cartesian Thought year: 1996 ident: S2053447722000173_ref9 contributor: fullname: Des Chene – ident: S2053447722000173_ref13 doi: 10.1080/09608780701604955 – ident: S2053447722000173_ref20 doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199567911.001.0001 – ident: S2053447722000173_ref16 doi: 10.5206/ls.2018.1512 – volume-title: De rebus naturalibus libri XXX year: 1590 ident: S2053447722000173_ref24 contributor: fullname: Zabarella – volume-title: Locke's Philosophy of Science and Knowledge year: 1971 ident: S2053447722000173_ref23 contributor: fullname: Woolhouse – ident: S2053447722000173_ref21 doi: 10.7208/chicago/9780226923789.001.0001 – ident: S2053447722000173_ref2 doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199589777.001.0001 – volume-title: The Philosophy of Robert Boyle year: 2000 ident: S2053447722000173_ref1 contributor: fullname: Anstey – ident: S2053447722000173_ref17 doi: 10.1163/157338297X00159 – ident: S2053447722000173_ref8 doi: 10.1007/978-94-007-1005-4 – volume: 3 start-page: 153 year: 2006 ident: S2053447722000173_ref15 article-title: Locks, Schlocks, and Poisoned Peas. Boyle on Actual and Dispositive Qualities publication-title: Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy, doi: 10.1093/oso/9780199203949.003.0006 contributor: fullname: Kaufman – ident: S2053447722000173_ref5 doi: 10.1093/oso/9780197502501.001.0001 – ident: S2053447722000173_ref6 doi: 10.1162/POSC_a_00036 – ident: S2053447722000173_ref18 doi: 10.7208/chicago/9780226577036.001.0001 – ident: S2053447722000173_ref3 doi: 10.2307/2025955 – volume-title: The Works of Robert Boyle year: 1999 ident: S2053447722000173_ref7 contributor: fullname: Boyle – ident: S2053447722000173_ref10 doi: 10.7591/9781501734212 – volume: 28 start-page: 157 year: 1997 ident: S2053447722000173_ref4 article-title: Review Article: The Cambridge Companion to Locke publication-title: The Locke Newsletter contributor: fullname: Ayers – start-page: 199 volume-title: The Bloomsbury Companion to Robert Boyle year: 2019 ident: S2053447722000173_ref14 contributor: fullname: Jones – year: 1650 ident: S2053447722000173_ref22 publication-title: Opera contributor: fullname: Sennert – volume-title: Locke: His Philosophical Thought year: 1999 ident: S2053447722000173_ref11 contributor: fullname: Jolley – ident: S2053447722000173_ref12 doi: 10.1353/hph.2005.0117 – ident: S2053447722000173_ref19 doi: 10.1215/00318108-113-1-31 |
SSID | ssj0001528876 |
Score | 2.2819083 |
Snippet | This paper studies Robert Boyle's account of kinds and classification. A number of commentators have argued that, for Boyle, classifications are inevitably the... |
SourceID | proquest crossref |
SourceType | Aggregation Database |
StartPage | 554 |
SubjectTerms | Classification Philosophy Realism |
Title | Robert Boyle and Natural Kinds |
URI | https://www.proquest.com/docview/2892394878 |
Volume | 9 |
hasFullText | 1 |
inHoldings | 1 |
isFullTextHit | |
isPrint | |
link | http://utb.summon.serialssolutions.com/2.0.0/link/0/eLvHCXMwnV27TsMwFL2CdunCG1EoVYauLnZiJ86EKLSqQK0qVKRuVvzIAkoLTYfy9dh5qMDAwJzFObq-r5ycA9CzLX1AjSKIKKIRDTVGXOEAhaG07Yi2TUShwDeZhuMX-rhgi2rhtq5olXVOLBK1Xiq3I7-xg4Fz8eYRv129I-ca5b6uVhYa-9AkJIxdVE_Iw27Hwnx7hwp_ORtriNIoqn7Rc6rRthjZ-dD3-4VZ2bei9DMnF4VmdAiiPmLJL3ntb3LZV5-_1Bv__w5HcFD1oN5dGTTHsGeyE2jNalOD7Sl0S8K1N1hu34yXZNqbJoVAh_dkZ_j1GcxHw_n9GFVOCkgRHuZISs1jRolMqbt1FgiFtcTUZkJDk5SFkofMN1zFOFXUqRczklJtDEklSVlwDo1smZkL8CIicSxN4CvH8EsI58xPOU60rf2JxKYNvRpJsSr1MkRJJIuEBVw4wAWJ2tCpERLVpVmLHTyXfz--gpZzfS-pXh1o5B8bc217g1x2oTkYTmfP3SIQvgD4Srkz |
link.rule.ids | 314,780,784,11699,21388,27924,27925,33744,36150,43805,44380,74302,74912 |
linkProvider | ProQuest |
linkToHtml | http://utb.summon.serialssolutions.com/2.0.0/link/0/eLvHCXMwfV09T8MwED1BO9AF8SkKpWToarATO3EnRFGrQtuoQkXqZsUfmVBaaBn677ETR4WFOYtzZ9-7O5_fA-jZlD6iRhFEFNGIxhojrnCE4ljadETbJKJk4Jul8fidvi7Z0jfcNn6sso6JZaDWK-V65A-2MHAq3jzhj-tP5FSj3O2ql9A4hKZjTmcNaA6G6fxt32VhoT1FpcKc3W2I0iTxj_Qcb7SFI1shhuF9KVf2C5b-RuUSakYncOxzxOCpcuopHJjiDFrzWnRgdw7daiA6GKx2HybICh2kWUmgEUxsjb25gMVouHgeI690gBTh8RZJqXmfUSJz6k6FXabCWmJqI5WhWc5iyWMWGq76OFfUsQszklNtDMklyVl0CY1iVZgrCBIicV-aKFRuAi8jnLMw5zjTFpsziU0bevV_inXFZyGqQa9EWHMIZw5BkjZ0ahsIv6k3Yu-C6_8_38HReDGbiulLOrmBllNor8ayOtDYfn2bW4vjW9n1zvoBeZKY8w |
linkToPdf | http://utb.summon.serialssolutions.com/2.0.0/link/0/eLvHCXMwfV09T8MwED1BK6EuiE9RKCVDV1M7cRJ3QhRaFQpRhYrUzYq_JpQWWob-e-zEUWFhzuLc2ffunJf3AHq2pY-olgQRSRSiicKISRyhJBG2HVG2iSgV-F6zZPJOnxfxwvOf1p5WWdfEslCrpXR35H07GDgXb5ayvvG0iNnj-G71iZyDlPvS6u009qFpURGHDWgOR9nsbXfjEof2RJVuc3bnIUrT1P-w5zSkLTTZaTEMb0vrsl8Q9bdCl7AzPoJD3y8G91WCj2FPFyfQmtUGBNtT6Fbk6GC43H7oIC9UkOWlmEYwtfP2-gzm49H8YYK86wGShCUbJIRig5gSYag7IXaZEiuBqa1amuYmTgRL4lAzOcBGUqc0HBNDldbECGLi6BwaxbLQFxCkROCB0FEoHRsvJ4zFoWE4Vxanc4F1G3r1e_JVpW3BK9JXym04uAsHJ2kbOnUMuN_ga75Lx-X_j2_gwOaJvzxl0ytoObP2iqHVgcbm61tfW0jfiK7P1Q9wdZ0g |
openUrl | ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info%3Aofi%2Fenc%3AUTF-8&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fsummon.serialssolutions.com&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Robert+Boyle+and+Natural+Kinds&rft.jtitle=Journal+of+the+American+Philosophical+Association&rft.au=ADRIAENSSEN%2C+HAN+THOMAS&rft.au=NAUTA%2C+LODI&rft.date=2023-09-01&rft.issn=2053-4477&rft.eissn=2053-4485&rft.volume=9&rft.issue=3&rft.spage=554&rft.epage=573&rft_id=info:doi/10.1017%2Fapa.2022.17&rft.externalDBID=n%2Fa&rft.externalDocID=10_1017_apa_2022_17 |
thumbnail_l | http://covers-cdn.summon.serialssolutions.com/index.aspx?isbn=/lc.gif&issn=2053-4477&client=summon |
thumbnail_m | http://covers-cdn.summon.serialssolutions.com/index.aspx?isbn=/mc.gif&issn=2053-4477&client=summon |
thumbnail_s | http://covers-cdn.summon.serialssolutions.com/index.aspx?isbn=/sc.gif&issn=2053-4477&client=summon |