The philosophy of nature : a guide to the new essentialism / Brian Ellis.

For many years essentialism was considered beyond the pale in philosophy, a relic of discredited Aristotelianism. This is no longer so. Kripke and Putnam have made belief in essential natures respectable once more. Harré and Madden have argued against Hume's theory of causation and developed an...

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Main Author: Ellis, B. D. (Brian David), 1929-
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Language:English
Published: Montreal ; Ithaca [N.Y.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2002.
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