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1. The Semantics and Metaphysics of Natural Kinds

   Edited by Helen Beebee, Nigel Sabbarton-Leary

   Series: Routledge Studies in Metaphysics

   Essentialism--roughly, the view that natural kinds have discrete essences, generating truths that are necessary but knowable only a posteriori--is an increasingly popular view in the metaphysics of science. At the same time, philosophers of language have been subjecting Kripke’s views about the...

   Published April 19th 2012 by Routledge
2. Hume on Causation

   By Helen Beebee

   Hume is traditionally credited with inventing the ‘regularity theory’ of causation, according to which the causal relation between two events consists merely in the fact that events of the first kind are always followed by events of the second kind. Hume is also traditionally credited with two...

   Published February 9th 2011 by Routledge
3. Metaphysics: The Key Concepts

   By Nikk Effingham, Helen Beebee, Philip Goff

   Series: Routledge Key Guides

   ‘Informative, accessible, and fun to read— this is an excellent reference guide for undergraduates and anyone wanting an introduction to the fundamental issues of metaphysics. I know of no other resource like it.’– Meghan Griffith, Davidson College, USA 'Marvellous! This book provides the very best...

   Published November 24th 2010 by Routledge