Essentialism

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71Philosophy / Logic / Topology / Mereological essentialism / Mereotopology / Simple / Temporal parts / Connected space / Counterpart theory / Mereology / Essentialism / Metaphysics

Topological Essentialism Roberto Casati CNRS, Séminaire d’Epistémologie Comparative, Aix-en-Provence (France) Achille C. Varzi Department of Philosophy, Columbia University, New York, New York (USA)

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Language: English - Date: 2002-05-05 17:23:56
72Infrahumanisation / Philosophy / Behavioural sciences / Group processes / Dehumanization / Behavior / Ingroups and outgroups / Essence / Porcupine / Social psychology / Essentialism / Philosophy of life

DEHUMANIZATION, ESSENTIALISM, AND MORAL PSYCHOLOGY1 David Livingstone Smith ABSTRACT Despite its importance, the phenomenon of dehumanization has been neglected by philosophers. Since its introduction, the term “dehuma

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Source URL: www.cl.cam.ac.uk

Language: English - Date: 2014-05-31 17:37:16
73Essentialism / Ontology / Philosophy of science / Mereological essentialism / Temporal parts / Physics / Matter / Substance theory / Simple / Philosophy / Metaphysics / Mereology

Undetached Parts and Disconnected Wholes Achille C. Varzi Department of Philosophy, Columbia University, New York [Published in Christer Svennerlind, Jan Almäng, and Rögnvaldur Ingthorsson (eds.), Johanssonian Investig

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Language: English - Date: 2013-03-05 06:01:49
74Essentialism / Modal logic / Philosophy of language / Philosophy of life / Logicians / Rigid designator / Naming and Necessity / Saul Kripke / Scientific essentialism / Philosophy / Logic / Analytic philosophy

ESSENCES AND NATURAL KINDS Alexander Bird 1 Introduction Essentialism as applied to individuals is the claim that for at least some individuals there are properties that those individuals possess essentially. What it is

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Language: English - Date: 2008-07-25 06:54:57
75Modal logic / Branches of philosophy / Necessity / Ontology / A priori and a posteriori / Nathan Salmon / Metaphysics / Accessibility relation / Possible world / Logic / Philosophy / Philosophical logic

LOWE ON A POSTERIORI ESSENTIALISM 1 Following Kripke, many philosophers have accepted the existence of propositions concerning essences, and, more generally, propositions asserting necessities, that are knowable only a

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Language: English - Date: 2008-01-16 02:00:22
76Metaphysics / Social psychology / Essentialism / Mereology / Modal logic / Stephen Mumford / Accident / Disposition / David Lewis / Philosophy / Logic / Analytic philosophers

Alexander Bird Nature’s Metaphysics: Laws and Properties Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2007 ISBN[removed]3; $70.00, £[removed]hardback); 231 pages (forthcoming in Logical Analysis and History of Phil

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Language: English - Date: 2009-09-15 08:30:34
77Inorganic solvents / Oxides / Chemical elements / Deuterium / Water / Heavy water / Chemical substance / Properties of water / Being / Chemistry / Matter / Neutron moderators

A POSTERIORI KNOWLEDGE OF NATURAL KIND ESSENCES: A DEFENCE Alexander Bird Abstract I defend this claim that some natural essences can be known (only) a posteriori against two philosophers who accept essentialism but who

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Language: English - Date: 2009-04-08 04:49:41
78Philosophy of science / Analytic philosophers / Essentialism / Philosophy of life / David Lewis / Ceteris paribus / Counterfactual conditional / Causality / Property / Philosophy / Metaphysics / Conditionals

rati_304.qxd[removed]:57 PM Page 437 © Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2005, 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2DQ, UK and 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148, USA. Ratio (new series) XVIII 4 December[removed]–0006

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Language: English - Date: 2005-11-14 12:23:00
79Universal / Problem of universals / Mereological essentialism / Substance theory / Essence / Sortal / Mereology / Edmund Husserl / Property / Metaphysics / Ontology / Philosophy

Microsoft Word - Wachter_2004-Armstrong.docx

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Source URL: sammelpunkt.philo.at

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80Essentialism / Mereological essentialism / Mereology

T. Parent Metaphysics Road Map: Identity Paradoxes I use Goliath/Lump1 as my example, but one might also use Theseus’ ships, Tibbles and Tib, etc. (Q0) Are the paradoxical conclusions true? Yes. Dialetheism. (Go read G

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Language: English - Date: 2012-08-24 07:54:04
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