Individuals, Essence and Identity Themes of Analytic Metaphysics
Andrea Bottani Massimiliano Carrara Pierdaniele Giaretta What do we do when we do metaphysics? The aim of this introduction is to give a provisional answer to this question, and then to explain the subtitle of the volume. It is easy to observe that when we do meta physics we engage in a linguistic...
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Table of Contents:
- One: Ontology and Analysis
- The Question of Realism
- Words and Objects
- Two: Essence and Existence
- Being and Essence in Contemporary Interpretations of Aristotle
- Some Comments on Prof. Enrico Berti’s Paper “Being and Essence in Contemporary Interpretations of Aristotle”
- Existence, Identity, and an Aristotelian Tradition
- Orenstein on Existence and Identity
- Abstract Objects: A Case Study
- Kinds, Essence, and Natural Necessity
- Kinds of Necessity: a Commentary on E.J. Lowe’s Paper
- Three: Identity
- On the Notion of Identity in Aristotle
- Sameness in Aristotle’s Topics
- Identity and Supervenience
- Comments on Wiggins’s Paper “Identity and Supervienence”
- Vagueness, Identity, and Leibniz’s Law
- Williamson on Vagueness, Identity, and Leibniz’s Law
- Origins and Identities
- Forbes on Origins and Identities
- Four: Time and Persistence
- Leibniz, Composite Substances and the Persistence of Organic Things
- On Naturalising Leibniz (a Reply to Anthony Savile)
- Temporal Parts and Identity Across Time
- Van Inwagen on Temporal Parts and Identity Across Time
- Change and Change-Ersatz
- Starting Over
- List of Contributors
- Index of Names