Brian Ellis 
Philosophy of Nature [PDF ebook] 
A Guide to the New Essentialism

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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. Harre and Madden have 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. And 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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Lingua Inglese ● Formato PDF ● Pagine 192 ● ISBN 9780773581715 ● Casa editrice MQUP ● Pubblicato 2002 ● Scaricabile 3 volte ● Moneta EUR ● ID 5205213 ● Protezione dalla copia Adobe DRM
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