GSK believes innovation starts when you stop to listen. That's why GSK and Veeve Health Care have partnered with the HIV community for decades

and developed medicines that better fit the lives of people living with HIV. That's just one example of how GSK unites science, technology, and talent to get ahead of disease together.

Visit gsk.com to learn more.

The partial examin life relies on your support to find out how to help in ways that are cheap or even free for you.

Please visit partialexaminalife.com slash support.

You're listening to the partially examined life, a podcast by some guys who at one point were set on doing philosophy for living with them thought better of it.

Our question for episode 163 is something like are there natural kinds?

We're speaking to author Stuart Humphrey about his 2016 book Natural Kinds and Genesis, the classification of material entities.

To get the reading and more information check out partialexaminalife.com. This is Mark Linton-Mire remaining consistent in spite of change in medicine's concern.

This is Wes Allen just happy to have great two compositional and metabolic involvement in the world.

This is Dylan Casey sitting discontentedly between two stools in anapolis, Maryland.

And this is Stuart Humphrey.

Great fall to all of you for having this podcast.

Welcome.

Welcome, Stuart.

Welcome.

Thank you.

This is a strange area for us. We've done a little bit of metaphysics, but even by your own admission, this book is not typical metaphysics.

And even though you give a lot of great philosophical history, you keep saying I'm going to ignore the philosophical history because I'm going to do that in another book and do a more direct analysis of the carnival.

And we should be able to do a more direct analysis of the concepts involved.

But we should feel around what this attempt to do natural philosophy is.

That's of course what day card and certainly Newton was considered at the time.

...