Contemporary essentialism and real essentialism
Against modalism
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 contingentalmost
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 by David S. Oderberg. ISBN 9780203356753. Published by Routledge in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
