『Cognitive Foundations of Natural History: Towards an Anthropology of Science』

Scott Atran

(1990年刊行,Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, xii+360 pp., ISBN:0521438733 [hbk] / ISBN:0521438713 [pbk] → 版元ページ



【目次】
Preface

1. Common sense: its scope and limit 1
Introduction 1

Part I. Folkbiology 15

2. Folktaxonomy 17
2.1 In the beginning ... 17
2.2 A basic level 25
2.3 Life-forms 30
2.4 Exceptions that prove the rule 35
2.5 Family fragments 41
3. The semantics of living kinds 47
3.1 Domain specificity 47
3.2 Meaning as a motley 52
3.3 Nature and necessity 58
3.4 Phenomenal reality and nomic theory 64
3.5 Kinds of natural kinds 71

Part II. Aristotelian Essentials 81

4. Essence and environment 83
4.1 Essentialism reconsidered 83
4.2 “Induction” 87
4.3 Form and matter 93
5. Materials of logical division 100
5.1 Genos and Eidos 100
5.2 Division and assembly 106
5.3 Analogy 115
5.4 Failure's triumph 119

Part III. From Herbals to Systems 123

6. Origins of the species concept 127
6.1 Back to nature 127
6.2 Charting new territory 135
6.3 Species forever 138
6.4 Omnia ex ovo 142
7. The nature of the genus 151
7.1 Fruits of reason 151
7.2 Trial and error 158
7.3 Art and intuition 165
7.4 Paradise regained 170

Part IV. The Scientific Breakaway 183

8. The method of families and classes 185
8.1 Stress and strain 185
8.2 And the walls came tumbling down 190
8.3 Piecing together the fragments 196
8.4 Organization 203
8.5 End of series 206
9. Science, symbolism and common sense 212
9.1 Savage savvy 212
9.2 Cognitive “pathogenesis” 217
9.3 Speculating 220
9.4 Plants as animals 224
9.5 The analogy of nature 230
9.6 Man dethroned 239
9.7 Dispositions to susceptibilities 247
10. Conclusions 252
Rudiments of the Linnaean hierarchy: towards an anthropology of science 252

Appendix: milestones of natural history 270
Notes 275
References 323
Index 340