Add to ORKGIn the first half of this paper, I argue that essential properties are intrinsic and that this permits a modal analysis of essence that is immune the sort of objections raised by Fine. In the second half, I argue that intrinsic properties collectively have a certain structure and that this accounts for some observations about essences: that things are essentially determinate; that things often have properties within a certain range essentially; and that the essential properties of things are their core propertie
I propose that we approach the epistemology of modality by putting modal metaphysics first and, spec...
Kit Fine has argued that we should understand necessity in terms of essence, rather than vice versa....
This thesis is an attempt to understand the essential properties of concrete objects. The underlyin...
In the first half of this paper, I argue that essential properties are intrinsic and that this permi...
Dispositional essentialists argue that physical properties have their causal roles essentially. This...
An intrinsic property is roughly a property things have in virtue of how they are, as opposed to how...
I defend a new account of constitutive essence on which an entity’s constitutively essential propert...
An intrinsic property is roughly a property things have in virtue of how they are, as opposed to how...
According to Essentialism, an object’s properties divide into those that are essential and tho...
The distinction between the essence of an object and its properties has been obscured in contemporar...
An intrinsic property is roughly a property something has in virtue of how it is, as opposed to how ...
It is widely accepted that if a property is essential then it is necessary. Against this I present n...
I propose that we approach the epistemology of modality by putting modal metaphysics first and, spec...
Kit Fine has argued that we should understand necessity in terms of essence, rather than vice versa....
This thesis is an attempt to understand the essential properties of concrete objects. The underlyin...
In the first half of this paper, I argue that essential properties are intrinsic and that this permi...
Dispositional essentialists argue that physical properties have their causal roles essentially. This...
An intrinsic property is roughly a property things have in virtue of how they are, as opposed to how...
I defend a new account of constitutive essence on which an entity’s constitutively essential propert...
An intrinsic property is roughly a property things have in virtue of how they are, as opposed to how...
According to Essentialism, an object’s properties divide into those that are essential and tho...
The distinction between the essence of an object and its properties has been obscured in contemporar...
An intrinsic property is roughly a property something has in virtue of how it is, as opposed to how ...
It is widely accepted that if a property is essential then it is necessary. Against this I present n...
I propose that we approach the epistemology of modality by putting modal metaphysics first and, spec...
Kit Fine has argued that we should understand necessity in terms of essence, rather than vice versa....
This thesis is an attempt to understand the essential properties of concrete objects. The underlyin...