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245 10 a| Real essentialism /c| David S. Oderberg.;

260 a| New York ;a| London :b| Routledge,c| 2007.;

300 a| xii, 314 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 24 cm.;

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490 1 a| Routledge studies in contemporary philosophy ;v| 11;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-308) and index.;

505 0 a| Contemporary essentialism and real essentialism -- Against modalism : possible worlds -- Against modalism : Fine's critique -- Reductionism : the illusory search for inner constitution -- Why real essentialism? -- Some varieties of anti-essentialism -- Empiricist anti-essentialism -- Quinean animadversions -- Popper : avoiding 'what-is?' questions -- Wittgenstein : the shadow of grammar -- The reality and knowability of essence -- Why essences are real -- The 'problem of the universal accidental -- An empirical test for essence? -- Coming to know essence -- 'Paradigms', 'stereotypes', and classification -- The structure of essence -- Hylemorphism : act and potency -- Substantial form -- Prime matter -- Substance -- The immanence of essence -- Essence and identity -- Real definition and the true law of identity -- The Porphyrian tree -- The analogy of being -- Individuation -- Identity over time -- Essence and existence -- The real distinction in contingent beings -- Everything is contingent, almost -- Powers -- Laws of nature -- Aspects of essence -- Kinds of accident -- The nature of properties -- Knowledge of essence via properties -- Artefacts -- Origin and constitution -- Life -- The essence of life -- Kinds of organism -- Against emergence -- Species, biological and metaphysical -- Is biological essentialism dead? -- Against the cladistic species concept -- Vagueness -- A plea for morphology -- The person -- The essence of personhood -- Hylemorphic dualism -- Consciousness, psychology, and the person -- Form, body, and soul -- Soul, intellect, and immateriality -- Soul, identity, and material dependence.;

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Real essentialism / David S. Oderberg.

Author/creator	Oderberg, David S.
Format	Book
Publication Info	New York ; London : Routledge, 2007.
Description	xii, 314 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content	Table of contents only
Subjects	Essentialism (Philosophy)

Series	Routledge studies in contemporary philosophy ; 11 Routledge studies in contemporary philosophy 11. ^A529021
Contents	Contemporary essentialism and real essentialism -- Against modalism : possible worlds -- Against modalism : Fine's critique -- Reductionism : the illusory search for inner constitution -- Why real essentialism? -- Some varieties of anti-essentialism -- Empiricist anti-essentialism -- Quinean animadversions -- Popper : avoiding 'what-is?' questions -- Wittgenstein : the shadow of grammar -- The reality and knowability of essence -- Why essences are real -- The 'problem of the universal accidental -- An empirical test for essence? -- Coming to know essence -- 'Paradigms', 'stereotypes', and classification -- The structure of essence -- Hylemorphism : act and potency -- Substantial form -- Prime matter -- Substance -- The immanence of essence -- Essence and identity -- Real definition and the true law of identity -- The Porphyrian tree -- The analogy of being -- Individuation -- Identity over time -- Essence and existence -- The real distinction in contingent beings -- Everything is contingent, almost -- Powers -- Laws of nature -- Aspects of essence -- Kinds of accident -- The nature of properties -- Knowledge of essence via properties -- Artefacts -- Origin and constitution -- Life -- The essence of life -- Kinds of organism -- Against emergence -- Species, biological and metaphysical -- Is biological essentialism dead? -- Against the cladistic species concept -- Vagueness -- A plea for morphology -- The person -- The essence of personhood -- Hylemorphic dualism -- Consciousness, psychology, and the person -- Form, body, and soul -- Soul, intellect, and immateriality -- Soul, identity, and material dependence.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-308) and index.
LCCN	2007010357
ISBN	9780415323642 (hbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN	0415323649 (hbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN	9780203356753 (ebk.)
ISBN	0203356756 (ebk.)

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