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How things might have been : individuals, kinds, and essential properties / Penelope Mackie.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mackie, Penelope, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Essentialism (Philosophy).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 212 pages) : illustrations
- Other Title:
- Individuals, kinds, and essential properties
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Published in the United States by Oxford University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- How are we to distinguish between the essential and accidental properties of things such as individual people, cats, trees, and tables? Almost everyone agrees that such individuals could have been different, in certain respects, from the way that they actually are. But what are the respects in which they could not have been different: which of their properties are essential to their being the individuals that they are? And why? Following the revival of interest among analytic philosophers in essentialism and de re modality generated by the work of Kripke and others in the 1970s, these question
- Contents:
- Preface; Contents; 1. Preliminaries; 2. Individual Essences and Bare Identities; 3. Origin Properties and Individual Essences; 4. Extrinsically Determined Identity and 'Best-candidate' Theories; 5. Counterpart Theory and the Puzzles of Transworld Identity; 6. The Necessity of Origin; 7. Sortal Concepts and Essential Properties I: Substance Sortals and Essential Sortals; 8. Sortal Concepts and Essential Properties II: Sortal Concepts and Principles of Individuation; 9. Essential Properties and Remote Contingencies; 10. Essentialism, Semantic Theory, and Natural Kinds; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-205) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-160403-8
- 1-281-16451-8
- 9786611164515
- 0-19-153410-2
- 1-4356-2278-2
- OCLC:
- 123131722
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