Real Essentialism (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy, 11, Band 11) - Hardcover

Oderberg, David S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415323649 ISBN 13: 9780415323642

Verlag: Routledge, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

Real Essentialism presents a comprehensive defence of neo-Aristotelian essentialism. Do objects have essences? Must they be the kinds of things they are in spite of the changes they undergo? Can we know what things are really like - can we define and classify reality? Many if not most philosophers doubt this, influenced by centuries of empiricism, and by the anti-essentialism of Wittgenstein, Quine, Popper, and other thinkers. Real Essentialism reinvigorates the tradition of realist, essentialist metaphysics, defending the reality and knowability of essence, the possibility of objective, immutable definition, and its relevance to contemporary scientific and metaphysical issues such as whether essence transcends physics and chemistry, the essence of life, the nature of biological species, and the nature of the person.

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David S. Oderberg is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading. He has published many books and articles in metaphysics, philosophical logic, ethics, philosophy of religion, and other subjects.

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• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0415323649
• ISBN 13: 9780415323642
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 328
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