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The Philosophy of Nature - A Guide to the New Essentialism (Paperback)
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The Philosophy of Nature - A Guide to the New Essentialism (Paperback)
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For many years essentialism - the view that some objects have
essentially or necessarily certain properties without which they
could not exist or be the things they are - was considered to be
beyond the pale in philosophy, a relic of discredited
Aristotelianism. This is no longer so. Kripke and Putnam have made
belief in essential natures once more respectable. Harre and Madden
have boldly argued against Hume's theory of causation, and
developed an alternative theory based on the assumption that there
are genuine causal powers in nature. Dretske, Tooley, Armstrong,
Swoyer and Carroll have all developed strong alternatives to Hume's
theory of the laws of nature. Shoemaker has developed a thoroughly
non-Humean theory of properties. The new essentialism has evolved
from these beginnings and can now reasonably claim to be a
metaphysic for a modern scientific understanding of the world - one
that challenges the conception of the world as comprising passive
entities whose interactions are to be explained by appeal to
contingent laws of nature externally imposed.
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