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Haecceity

An Ontological Essay

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  • © 1993

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Authors:
  1. Gary S. Rosenkrantz

    1. University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA

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Part of the book series: Philosophical Studies Series (PSSP, volume 57)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introductory Preliminaries

    • Gary S. Rosenkrantz
    Pages 1-71

  3. The Problem of Individuation

    • Gary S. Rosenkrantz
    Pages 72-139

  4. Haecceities and Nonexistent Possible Individuals

    • Gary S. Rosenkrantz
    Pages 140-167

  5. Singular Reference and Unexemplified Haecceities

    • Gary S. Rosenkrantz
    Pages 168-183

  6. Acquaintance

    • Gary S. Rosenkrantz
    Pages 184-244

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 245-255
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About this book

Many contemporary philosophers are interested in the scotistic notion of haecceity or `thisness' because it is relevant to important problems concerning identity and individuation, reference, modality, and propositional attitudes. Haecceity is the only book-length work devoted to this topic. The author develops a novel defense of Platonism, arguing, first, that abstracta - nonqualitative haecceities - are needed to explain concreta's being diverse at a time; and second, that unexemplified haecceities are then required to accommodate the full range of cases in which there are possible worlds containing individuals not present in the actual world. In the cognitive area, an original epistemic argument is presented which implies that certain haecceities can be grasped by a person: his own, those of certain of his mental states, and those of various abstracta, but not those of external things. It is argued that in consequence there is a clear sense in which one is directly acquainted with the former entities, but not with external things.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA

    Gary S. Rosenkrantz

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Haecceity

  • Book Subtitle: An Ontological Essay

  • Authors: Gary S. Rosenkrantz

  • Series Title: Philosophical Studies Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8175-2

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1993

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-2438-6Published: 31 August 1993

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-4311-5Published: 28 October 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-8175-2Published: 09 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0921-8599

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-8349

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 256

  • Topics: Ontology, Metaphysics, Epistemology

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