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  PhD

  Philosophy

  University of California

  San Diego

• 1992

  BA

  Philosophy + Physics

  Texas Christian University

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  Scientific Enquiry and Natural Kinds: From Planets to Mallards

  This book gives a general account of what it is to be a natural kind. The account is then put to work to illuminate specific examples

  such as the category planet and the fate of Pluto

  species like the common mallard and the species category itself

  cognition and distributed cognition

  animal signals and the threats they signify

  and even baked goods.

  Scientific Enquiry and Natural Kinds: From Planets to Mallards

  An open access introductory textbook in formal logic. It covers translation

  proofs

  and formal semantics for sentential and predicate logic. Downloaded over 100

  000 times and used as a course text at numerous institutions. Parts of forall x have been adapted by other authors and incorporated into several derivative works.

  forall x: an introduction to formal logic

  Magnus

  University at Albany

  SUNY

  Bowdoin College

  Bowdoin College

  Professor

  University at Albany

  SUNY