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Essentialism, Super-Essentialism and/or Anti-Essentialism in Leibniz
According to Leibniz’s doctrine of the complete concept, an individual could not lack any of its properties while maintaining its identity, hence...
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Anti-essentialism, modal relativity, and alternative material-origin counterfactuals
In ordinary language, in the medical sciences, and in the overlap between them, we frequently make claims which imply that we might have had...
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Identity, Difference and Anti-essentialism
This chapter analyzes poststructural theories of difference that question the grand narratives and rationality of Enlightenment liberalism and pay...
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Emerson as Philosopher Postmodernism and Beyond
This book considers the role of postmodernism (skepticism towards metanarratives and anti-essentialism) in Ralph Waldo Emerson's philosophy by...
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Reconsidering the Dispositional Essentialist Canon
Dispositional Essentialism is a unified anti-Humean account of the metaphysics of low-level physical properties and laws of nature. In this paper, I...
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Vattimo, Nancy, Caputo: Hermeneutics in the Shadow of Nihilism
In this chapter, Vattimo is shown to propose hermeneutics as a history of nihilistic secularization in the style of a non-metaphysical,...
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Grounding theories of powers
Necessitarianism, as we shall use the term, is the view that natural properties and causal powers are necessarily connected in some way. In recent...
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Navigation and Indexical Thought
This paper argues for a moderate form of essentialism about indexical thought (also known as de se , first-person, or egocentric thought). According...
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How to be a powers theorist about functional laws, conservation laws and symmetries
This paper defends an account of the laws of nature in terms of irreducibly modal properties (aka powers ) from the threat posed by functional laws,...
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Literary Neuroexistentialism: Coming to Terms with Materialism and Finding Meaning in the Age of Neuroscience through Literature
With the rise of the scientific authority of neuroscience and recent neurotechnological advances, the understanding of the human being and its future...
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Nationalism and Its Other
Two important and influential books—Nations and Nationalism by Ernest Gellner, and Imagined Communities by Benedict Anderson, arrived on the...
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Critical social ontology
Critical social ontology is any study of social ontology that is done in order to critique ideology or end social injustice. The goal of this paper...
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Dispositional essentialism and the necessity of laws: a deflationary account
Two related claims have lately garnered currency: dispositional essentialism—the view that some or all properties, or some or all fundamental...
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No, water (still) doesn’t have a microstructural essence (reply to Hoefer & Martí)
Häggqvist and Wikforss (
2018 ) argued that in the case of so-called natural kind terms, semantic externalism relies on an untenable metaphysics of... -
Social kind realism as relative frame manipulability
In this paper we introduce the view that realism about a social kind K entails that the grounding conditions of K are difficult (or impossible) to...
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Concepts with Teeth and Claws. On Species, Essences and Purposes in Hegel’s Organic Physics
In this chapter I argue that Hegel is not an ‘essentialist’ when it comes to living nature. Hegel does not have a conception of species that fits...
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Marx and Laozi’s Ethical Naturalisms
This chapter will construct arguments from Marx’s scientific humanist ethical naturalism and Laozi’s aesthetic, anti-humanist ethical naturalism....
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Demographic Cultures and Demographic Skepticism
The social sciences often explain behavioral differences by appealing to membership in distinct cultural groups. This work uses the concepts of...
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Physics for Humans: Kant, Physics, and the Neo-Aristotelian Natural Power Grid
In this chapter, I argue that there is a distinctively different, arguably true, and above all thoroughly anti-skeptical, contemporary Kantian third...