Research Interests
- Philosophy of Science
- Philosophy of Mind
- Philosophy of Cognitive Science
- Philosophy of Social Science
- Classical Arab-Islamic Philosophy
Representative Publications
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Natural Categories and Human Kinds: Classification in the Natural and Social Sciences, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013 (paperback edition 2015)
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Medieval Islamic Philosophical Writings (Editor and Translator), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005
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“Etiological Kinds,” Philosophy of Science, in press
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“Natural Kinds as Nodes in Causal Networks,” Synthese 195 (2018), 1379-1396
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“Crosscutting Psycho-Neural Taxonomies: The Case of Episodic Memory,” Philosophical Explorations 20 (2017), 191-208
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“Mind-Dependent Kinds,” Journal of Social Ontology 2 (2016), 223-246
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“Innateness as a Natural Cognitive Kind,” Philosophical Psychology 29 (2016), 319-333
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“Three Kinds of Social Kinds,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 90 (2015), 96-112
