TY - JOUR
T1 - Kripkean Essentialist Argument and Its Generalization
JF - Organon F
Y1 - 2018
A1 - Lee, Jaeho
KW - analyticity
KW - Kripkean essentialist argument
KW - natural kind
KW - necessity a posteriori
AB - In this paper I examine the argument by H. Beebee and N. Sabbarton-Leary that Brian Ellis’s scientific essentialism is based on the “abuse” of the necessary a posteriori. I will first briefly survey various attempts to resist what I will call the “Kripkean essentialist argument” to locate Beebee’s and Sabbarton-Leary’s position properly. After that I will argue that Beebee’s and Sabbarton-Leary’s argument is not successful; in particular, I will argue that under the most natural interpretation of their position it is not internally coherent, and that their argument is based on a superficial understanding of Kripkean necessity a posteriori.
IS - 2
VL - 25
SP - 142-154
UR - http://www.klemens.sav.sk/fiusav/doc/organon/2018/2/142-154.pdf
U2 - Articles
U3 - 142154
TI - Kripkean Essentialist Argument and Its Generalization
ER -