CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2022
| Author | Wang, Yangyang |
|---|---|
| Title | Natural Kind Terms Defined By Convention: family resemblance as a better way of understanding kind terms including sex and gender terms |
| Summary | Essentialism on natural kind terms holds that there is an essence by virtue of which all instances of a given kind belong to the same category and are named by the same kind term. This thesis aims at criticizing essentialism on natural kind terms. There are various types of essentialism, the main focus here is to argue against Kripke’s views on natural kind terms and suggest a better way of understanding kind terms by Wittgenstein’s notion of family resemblance. This thesis also includes a case study to show that a more inclusive way of using sex-gender terms is available if we give up the essentialist assumption. |
| Supervisor | Ben-Yami, Hanoch |
| Department | Philosophy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2022/wang_yangyang.pdf |
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