Real essentialism
By: David S. Oderberg.
Series: Routledge studies in contemporary philosophy -- 11
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780415323642
Subjects: Essentialism (Philosophy)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Contemporary essentialism and real essentialism; title: Against modalism; title: Reductionism : the illusory search for inner constitution; title: Why real essentialism?; title: Some varieties of anti-essentialism; title: Empiricist anti-essentialism; title: Quinean animadversions; title: Popper : avoiding what-is questions; title: Wittgenstein : the shadow of grammar; title: The reality and knowability of essence; title: Why essences are real; title: The problem of the universal accidental; title: An empirical test for essence?; title: Coming to know essence; title: Paradigms, stereotypes, and classification; title: The structure of essence; title: Hylemorphism : act and potency; title: Substantial form; title: Prime matter; title: Substance; title: The immanence of essence; title: Essence and identity; title: Real definition and the true law of identity; title: The porphyrian tree; title: The analogy of being; title: Individuation; title: Identity over time; title: Essence and existence; title: The real distinction in contingent beings; title: Everything is contingentalmost; title: Powers; title: Laws of nature; title: Aspects of essence; title: Kinds of accident; title: The nature of properties; title: Knowledge of essence via properties; title: Artefacts; title: Origin and constitution; title: Life; title: The essence of life; title: Kinds of organism; title: Against emergence; title: Species, biological and metaphysical; title: Is biological essentialism dead?; title: Against the cladistic species concept; title: Vagueness; title: A plea for morphology; title: The person; title: The essence of personhood; title: Hylemorphic dualism; title: Consciousness, psychology, and the person; title: Form, body, and soul; title: Soul, intellect, and immateriality; title: Soul, identity, and material dependence.