Penelope Mackie

How Things Might Have Been

Individuals, Kinds, and Essential Properties

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Produktbeschreibung

Penelope Mackie's book is a novel treatment of an issue central to much current work in metaphysics: the distinction between the essential and accidental properties of individuals. Mackie's accessible discussions of issues surrounding necessity and essentialism mean that the book appeals as much to graduate students as to seasoned metaphysicians.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Februar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 291g
• ISBN-13: 9780199562404
• ISBN-10: 0199562407
• Artikelnr.: 26033597

Autorenporträt

Penelope Mackie is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Nottingham

Inhaltsangabe

* 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 Propeties II: Sortal Concepts and
Principles of Individuation
* 9: Essential Properties and Remote Contingencies
* 10: Essentialism, Semantic Theory, and Natural Kinds