Necessity, Essence, and Individuation : : A Defense of Conventionalism / / Alan Sidelle.
Alan Sidelle's Necessity, Essence, and Individuation is a sustained defense of empiricism—or, more generally, conventionalism—against recent attacks by realists. Sidelle focuses his attention on necessity a posteriori, a kind of necessity which contemporary realists have taken to support realis...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019] ©1989 |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Realism and Conventionalism -- 2. How to Be a Modern-Day Conventionalist -- 3. Is It Possible to Be a Modern-Day Conventionalist? or, Responding to Some Technical Worries -- 4. The Case for Conventionalism and the Problem with Real Necessity -- 5. The Commitment to Analyticity -- 6. Analyticity and Reference -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Summary: | Alan Sidelle's Necessity, Essence, and Individuation is a sustained defense of empiricism—or, more generally, conventionalism—against recent attacks by realists. Sidelle focuses his attention on necessity a posteriori, a kind of necessity which contemporary realists have taken to support realism over empiricism. Turning the tables against the realists, Sidelle argues that if there are in fact truths necessary a posteriori, it is not realism, but rather empiricism which provides the best explanation for them. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781501746260 9783110536171 |
DOI: | 10.7591/9781501746260 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Alan Sidelle. |