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In a recent issue of this journal, Berit Brogaard and Joe Salerno presented a counterfactual theory of essence, designed to get around Kit Fine's influential objections to the standard modal account of essence. I argue that Brogaard and Salerno's theory does not avoid Fine's objection...

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Veröffentlicht in:Synthese (Dordrecht) 2015-06, Vol.192 (6), p.1909-1921
1. Verfasser: Steward, Stephen
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Analysis
Education
Epistemology
Logic
Metaphysics
Philosophy
Philosophy of Language
Philosophy of Science
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Zusammenfassung:In a recent issue of this journal, Berit Brogaard and Joe Salerno presented a counterfactual theory of essence, designed to get around Kit Fine's influential objections to the standard modal account of essence. I argue that Brogaard and Salerno's theory does not avoid Fine's objections. Then I propose a sequence of variations on their theory, and argue that none of them succeed either.
ISSN:0039-7857
1573-0964
DOI:10.1007/s11229-015-0663-y