A Response to Chisholm’s Paradox
Abstract: Essentialists suppose that for every individual, if that individual exists at any possible world, then necessarily that individual exemplifies some non-trivial qualitative property essential to it, as such. Anti-essentialists deny this. ...
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Malebranche on Intelligible Extension: A Programmatic Interpretation
Abstract: The purpose of this essay is exegesis. I explicate Nicolas Malebranche's (1674, 1678, 1688, 1714) concept of intelligible extension. I begin by detailing how the concept matured throughout Malebranche's work, and the new functions it too...
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Essence, Effluence, and Emanation: A Neo-Suarezian Analysis
Summarium: In hac dissertatione de propriis passionibus earumque ad essentiam relatione tractatur. Propriæ passiones (sive propria) sunt reales rei affectiones quæ per se sive naturaliter insunt, tamen de essentia rei non sunt sed ex ea “resultare...
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