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Mereological essentialism

Mereological essentialism is a philosophical thesis about the relationship between wholes and their parts, and the conditions for their persistence… 
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2018
2018
The metaphysics of natural kinds
This paper maps the landscape for a range of views concerning the metaphysics of natural kinds. I consider a range of… 
2015
2015
ONLY POWERS CAN CONFER DISPOSITIONS
According to power theorists, all (fundamental, perfectly natural) properties (or at least all fundamental, perfectly natural… 
2011
2011
Discourse scalarity: The case of Dutch helemaal
2010
2010
Mereology, Modality and Magic
If the property being a methane molecule is a universal, then it is a structural universal: objects instantiate being a methane… 
Review
2010
Review
2010
Twenty years of trying to make sense of quality assurance : the misalignment of quality assurance with institutional quality frameworks and quality culture
  • 2010
  • Corpus ID: 30791444
This paper critiques two decades of the quality assurance movement in higher education, based on 400 articles published in the… 
Review
2006
Review
2006
The Egalitarian Face of Islamic Orthodoxy: Support for Islamic Law and Economic Justice in Seven Muslim-Majority Nations
The authors test two theories linking religion and economic beliefs in predominantly Muslim nations using data from national… 
Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Laws and Essences
Those who favour an ontology based on dispositions are thereby able to provide a dispositional essentialist account of the laws… 
2005
2005
Truthmaking and Supervenience
This paper advances a criticism of Parsons' notion of truthmaker grounded on the notion of supervenience. I argue that none of… 
2004
2004
Dion, Theon, and the many-thinkers problem
My solution to the problem of Dion and Theon (Burke 1994a) employs the doctrine of sortal essentialism.1 Jim Stone (2002) objects… 
1991
1991
Why emotions can't be unconscious: an exploration of Freud's essentialism
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