Description: Penelope Mackie's book is a novel treatment of an issue central to much current work in metaphysics: the distinction between the essential and accidental properties of individuals. Mackie challenges widely held views, and arrives at what she calls "minimalist essentialism," an unorthodox theory according to which ordinary individuals have relatively few interesting essential properties. Mackie's clear and accessible discussions of issues surrounding necessity and essentialism mean that the book will appeal as much to graduate students as it will to seasoned metaphysicians.
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Book Title: How Things Might Have Been : Individuals, Kinds, And Essential Pr
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Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Original Language: English
Item Length: 6 in
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Publication Year: 2006
Format: Hardcover
Language: english
Item Height: 9 in
Author: Mackie, Penelope
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Genre: Philosophy
Topic: Property
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Number of Pages: 212