Essentialism--roughly, the view that natural kinds have discrete
essences, generating truths that are necessary but knowable only a
posteriori--is an increasingly popular view in the metaphysics of
science. At the same time, philosophers of language have been
subjecting Kripke's views about the existence and scope of the
necessary a posteriori to rigorous analysis and criticism.
Essentialists typically appeal to Kripkean semantics to motivate
their radical extension of the realm of the necessary a posteriori;
but they rarely attempt to provide any semantic arguments for this
extension, or engage with the critical work being done by
philosophers of language. This collection brings authors on both
sides together in one volume, thus helping the reader to see the
connections between views in philosophy of language on the one hand
and the metaphysics of science on the other. The result is a book
that will have a significant impact on the debate about
essentialism, encouraging essentialists to engage with debates
about the semantic presuppositions that underpin their position,
and, encouraging philosophers of language to engage with the
metaphysical presuppositions enshrined in Kripkean semantics.
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