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The Populationist approach to species reference articulated in Chapter 5 has a distinctly nominalist flavor. As such, it pulls against the realist stance on species. The task of this chapter will be to explain how to supplement Populationism with a certain picture of natural kinds that allows us to hold on to many—though not all—of our realist intuitions. That picture will be a revision and expansion of Richard Boyd’s Homeostatic Property Cluster (HPC) account of natural kinds.
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Slater, M.H. (2013). The Natural Kindness Approach. In: Are Species Real?. New Directions in the Philosophy of Science. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230393233_6
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