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Real Essentialism

Real Essentialism defends the metaphysical position that everything in the

world has an essence or nature that ﬁxes its identity. Although a traditional

view in philosophy, defended most famously by Aristotle, scepticism about

and hostility to the notion of essence in modern and contemporary philo-

sophy are a commonplace. Recent work in logic and philosophy of language

has given essentialism a new life, but Real Essentialism argues that it has

still not been given the contemporary defence it requires. It sets out a full

theory of essence and applies it to such questions as the nature of species,

the nature of life and the essence of the person.

David S. Oderberg is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading.

He has published many books and articles in metaphysics, philosophical logic,

ethics, philosophy of religion, and other subjects.

Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

1. Email and Ethics

Style and Ethical Relations in Computer-Mediated Communication

Emma Rooksby

2. Causation and Laws of Nature

Max Kistler

3. Internalism and Epistemology

The Architecture of Reason

Timothy McGrew and Lydia McGrew

4. Einstein, Relativity and Absolute Simultaneity

Edited by William Lane Craig and Quentin Smith

5. Epistemology Modalized

Kelly Becker

6. Truth and Speech Acts

Studies in the philosophy of language

Edited by Dirk Greimann and Geo Siegwart

7. Fiction, Narrative, and Knowledge

A Sense of the World

Edited by John Gibson, Wolfgang Huemer, and Luca Pocci

8. A Pragmatist Philosophy of Democracy

Communities of Inquiry

Robert B. Talisse

9. Aesthetics and Material Beauty

Aesthetics Naturalized

Jennifer A. McMahon

10. Aesthetic Experience

Edited by Richard Shusterman and Adele Tomlin

11. Real Essentialism

David S. Oderberg

12. To be announced

13. Metaphysics and the Representational Fallacy

Heather Dyke

14. Practical Identity and Narrative Agency

Edited by Catriona Mackenzie and Kim Atkins

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