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Subject: Essence

  • On the Nature and Structure of Reality

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    Fall 2016

    Zylstra, Justin

    This dissertation defends an essence first approach to metaphysics. We begin with identifying metaphysical conceptions of identity, existence, and truth, as associated with qualified versions of the questions ‘What is it [really]?’, ‘Does it [really] exist?’, and ‘Is it [really] the case?’. The...

  • The Essence of Anti-Essentialism

    2017-10-14

    Koslicki, Kathrin

    SSHRC Awarded IG 2018: Essences have traditionally been assigned important but controversial explanatory roles in philosophical, scientific and social theorizing. For example, why is it possible for one and the same organism to be first a caterpillar and then a butterfly? Why is it impossible for...

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