Real essentialism /
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| Author / Creator: | Oderberg, David S. |
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| Imprint: | New York ; London : Routledge, 2007. |
| Description: | xii, 314 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Routledge studies in contemporary philosophy ; 11 Routledge studies in contemporary philosophy ; 11. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8691516 |
Table of Contents:
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Contemporary essentialism and real essentialism
- 1.1. Against modalism: possible worlds
- 1.2. Against modalism: Fine's critique
- 1.3. Reductionism: the illusory search for inner constitution
- 1.4. Why real essentialism?
- 2. Some varieties of anti-essentialism
- 2.1. Empiricist anti-essentialism
- 2.2. Quinean animadversions
- 2.3. Popper: avoiding 'what-is?' questions
- 2.4. Wittgenstein: the shadow of grammar
- 3. The reality and knowability of essence
- 3.1. Why essences are real
- 3.2. The 'problem' of the universal accidental
- 3.3. An empirical test for essence?
- 3.4. Coming to know essence
- 3.5. 'Paradigms', 'stereotypes', and classification
- 4. The structure of essence
- 4.1. Hylemorphism: act and potency
- 4.2. Substantial form
- 4.3. Prime matter
- 4.4. Substance
- 4.5. The immanence of essence
- 5. Essence and identity
- 5.1. Real definition and the true law of identity
- 5.2. The Porphyrian Tree
- 5.3. The Analogy of Being
- 5.4. Individuation
- 5.5. Identity over time
- 6. Essence and existence
- 6.1. The real distinction in contingent beings
- 6.2. Everything is contingent... almost
- 6.3. Powers
- 6.4. Laws of nature
- 7. Aspects of essence
- 7.1. Kinds of accident
- 7.2. The nature of properties
- 7.3. Knowledge of essence via properties
- 7.4. Artefacts
- 7.5. Origin and constitution
- 8. Life
- 8.1. The essence of life
- 8.2. Kinds of organism
- 8.3. Against emergence
- 9. Species, biological and metaphysical
- 9.1. Is biological essentialism dead?
- 9.2. Against the cladistic species concept
- 9.3. Vagueness
- 9.4. A plea for morphology
- 10. The person
- 10.1. The essence of personhood
- 10.2. Hylemorphic dualism
- 10.3. Consciousness, psychology, and the person
- 10.4. Form, body, and soul
- 10.5. Soul, intellect, and immateriality
- 10.6. Soul, identity, and material dependence
- 10.7. Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
