کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
5130417 1490321 2017 10 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Pluto and the platypus: An odd ball and an odd duck - On classificatory norms
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
پلوتو و پلاتپوس: توپ عجیب و غریب و اردک عجیب و غریب - در هنجارهای طبقه بندی
کلمات کلیدی
پلوتون؛ Platypus؛ تقسیم بندی؛ استانداردها؛ پلورالیسم
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی علوم انسانی و هنر تاریخ
چکیده انگلیسی


- The dispute about whether we discovered that Pluto is a planet is discussed.
- This dispute is compared to the controversy about the status of the platypus.
- Classificatory norms play a significant role in disagreement about classification.
- Classificatory norms have important implications for controversies about pluralism.

Many astronomers seem to believe that we have discovered that Pluto is not a planet. I contest this assessment. Recent discoveries of trans-Neptunian Pluto-sized objects do not militate for Pluto's expulsion from the planets unless we have prior reason for not simply counting these newly-discovered objects among the planets. I argue that this classificatory controversy - which I compare to the controversy about the classification of the platypus - illustrates how our classificatory practices are laden with normative commitments of a distinctive kind. I conclude with a discussion of the relevance of such “norm-ladenness” to other controversies in the metaphysics of classification, such as the monism/pluralism debate.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A - Volume 61, February 2017, Pages 1-10
نویسندگان
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