How to Incorporate Non-Epistemic Values into a Theory of Classification

European Journal for Philosophy of Science - Tập 12 - Trang 1-28 - 2022
Thomas A. C. Reydon1, Marc Ereshefsky2
1Institute of Philosophy & Centre for Ethics and Law in the Life Sciences (CELLS), Leibniz University Hannover, Hannover, Germany
2Department of Philosophy, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

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Non-epistemic values play important roles in classificatory practice, such that philosophical accounts of kinds and classification should be able to accommodate them. Available accounts fail to do so, however. Our aim is to fill this lacuna by showing how non-epistemic values feature in scientific classification, and how they can be incorporated into a philosophical theory of classification and kinds. To achieve this, we present a novel account of kinds and classification (the Grounded Functionality Account), discuss examples from biological classification where non-epistemic values play decisive roles, and show how this account accommodates the role of non-epistemic values.

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