Part I – The Analysis Question
1. The Modal Analysis
Robertson, T.
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Fine, K.
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McLeod, S.
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http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/essential-accidental/ (Section 1)
Essence and Modality, Philosophical Perspectives 8: 1–16
How to reconcile essence with contingent existence, Ratio 21: 314-28
2. Replies to Fine – DR, Gorman, Zalta, Me?
Della Rocca, M.
1996. Essentialism: Parts 1 & 2, Philosophical Books 37: 1-13, 81-89.
Gorman, M.
2006. The Essential and the Accidental, Ratio 18: 276-289
Zalta, E.
2006. Essence and Modality, Mind 115: 659-693
3. Fundamentalism: Fine
Fine, K.
1994a. Essence and modality, Philosophical Perspectives, 8: 1-16
1994b. Senses of essence, in W. Sinnott-Armstrong (ed.), Modality, Morality, and
Belief. Cambridge University Press: New York, 53-73.
2005. Necessity and non-existence,’ in his Modality and Tense. Oxford: Clarendon
Press, 321-54
4. Fundamentalism: Correia
Correia, F.
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5. Fundamentalism: Lowe
Lowe, E.J.
2008.
Shalkowski, S.
(ms)
2008.
Generic Essence, Objectual Essence, and Modality, Noûs, 2006, 40 (4), 753(Finean) Essence and (Priorean) Modality, Dialectica, 2007, 61 (1), 63-84
On the Reduction of Necessity to Essence, forthcoming in Philosophy and
Phenomenological Research
Two notions of being: entity and essence,’ Royal Institute of Philosophy
Supplement 83: 23-48
Metaphysics as Science of Essence, unpublished manuscript
Essence and being, Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements 83: 49-63
Part II – The Extension Question
6. Mereological Essentailism 1: Chisholm
Chisholm, R.
1973. Parts as Essential to Their Wholes, Review of Metaphysics 26: 581-603
1976. Person and Object: A Metaphysical Study, La Salle (IL): Open Court
Plantinga, A.
1973. On Mereological Essentialism, The Review of Metaphysics 28: 468-476
7. Mereological Essentialism 2: Topology & More!
Varzi, A.
2000. Topological Essentialism, Philosophical Studies 100 (3):217 – 236
Cameron, R
(fc)
Mereological Essentialism, forthcoming in The Handbook of Mereology,
edited by Hans Burkhard, Guido Imaguire and Johanna Seibt
8. Origin Essentialism – Kripke’s ‘argument’
Kripke, S.
1980. Naming & Necessity. Harvard University Press. (Selections)
Cameron, R.
2005. A note on Kripke’s footnote 56 argument for the essentiality of
origin, Ratio 18: 262-75.
9. Origin Essentialism – Forbes’ argument
Forbes, G.
2007. ‘Essentialism,’ in Hale, B. and Wright, C. eds. A Companion to the
Philosophy
of Language. Oxford: Blackwell.
2002. Origins and Identities, in Individuals, Essence, and Identity, A.
Bottani et al. (eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 319-340
Mackie, P.
2002. Forbes on origins and identities. in Individuals, Essence, and Identity,
A. Bottani et al. (eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 341-52
10. Origin Essentialism – Salmon’s argument 1: Robertson, H&G
Robertson, T.
1998. Possibilities and the arguments for origin essentialism, Mind, 107: 729-49
Hawthorne, J. & Gendler, 2000. Origin essentialism: the arguments reconsidered, Mind, 109: 285-98
11. Origin Essentialism – Salmon’s argument 2: Robertson, Damnjanovic
Robertson, T.
2000. Essentialism: origin and order, Mind, 109: 299-307.
Damnjanovic, N.
2009. Sperm, eggs and hunks: biological origins and identity, Acta Analytica, 24,
113–26
2010. No route to material origin essentialism? Erkenntnis, 72: 93-110.
12. Origin Essentialism – A New Route? 1
Rohrbaugh & deRosset 2004. A new route to the necessity of origin, Mind 113: 705-25
Cameron, R & Roca, S. 2006. Rohbraugh and deRosset on the necessity of origin, Mind 115: 361-66
Robertson, T. & Forbes 2006. Does the new route reach its destination? Mind 115: 367-73
13. Origin Essentialism – A New Route 2?
Rohrbaugh & deRosset 2006. Prevention, independence, and origin, Mind, 115: 375-83
Ballarin, R.
The Necessity of Origin: A Long and Winding Route, forthcoming in
Erkenntnis
14. Minimalist Essentialism
Lewis, D.
1986. On the Plurality of Worlds. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. (Section 4.4)
Mackie, P.
2006. How Things Might Have Been: Individuals, Kinds and Essential Properties.
Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Chapter 9)
Paul, L.
2006. In Defense of Essentialism, Philosophical Perspectives 20:333–372
Five Significant Books on the subject of essentialism:
- Kripke, Saul. Naming and Necessity, Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1972/1980.
- Forbes, Graeme. The Metaphysics of Modality. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985.
- Plantinga, Alvin. The Nature of Necessity. Oxford: OUP, 1974.
- Salmon, Nathan. Reference and Essence. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1981.
- Mackie, Penelope. How Things Might Have Been: Individuals, Kinds and Essential Properties. Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 2006.