dc.contributor.advisor | Simmons, Alison | |
dc.contributor.author | Kuklok, Allison Sara | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-10-18T13:40:05Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2013-10-18 | |
dc.date.submitted | 2013 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Kuklok, Allison Sara. 2013. Conceptualism and Objectivity in Locke's Account of Natural Kinds. Doctoral dissertation, Harvard University. | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11079 | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:11181128 | |
dc.description.abstract | Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding is considered by many to be the locus classicus of a number of influential arguments for conventionalism, according to which there are no objective, privileged ways of classifying things in the natural world. In the dissertation I argue that Locke never meant to reject natural kinds. Still, the challenge is to explain how, within a metaphysics that explicitly denies mind-independent essences, we can make sense of a privileged, objective sorting of substances. I argue that we do so by looking to Locke's conception of God as divine architect of created substances. | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | Philosophy | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dash.license | LAA | |
dc.subject | Philosophy | en_US |
dc.subject | Conceptualism | en_US |
dc.subject | Locke | en_US |
dc.subject | Natural Kinds | en_US |
dc.title | Conceptualism and Objectivity in Locke's Account of Natural Kinds | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis or Dissertation | en_US |
dash.depositing.author | Kuklok, Allison Sara | |
dc.date.available | 2013-10-18T13:40:05Z | |
thesis.degree.date | 2013 | en_US |
thesis.degree.discipline | Philosophy | en_US |
thesis.degree.grantor | Harvard University | en_US |
thesis.degree.level | doctoral | en_US |
thesis.degree.name | Ph.D. | en_US |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Hall, Edward | en_US |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | McDonough, Jeffrey | en_US |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Nickel, Bernhard | en_US |
dash.contributor.affiliated | Kuklok, Allison Sara | |