%0 Journal Article
%J Organon F
%D 2018
%T Kripkean Essentialist Argument and Its Generalization
%A Lee, Jaeho
%K analyticity
%K Kripkean essentialist argument
%K natural kind
%K necessity a posteriori
%X 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.
%B Organon F
%V 25
%P 142-154
%G English
%U http://www.klemens.sav.sk/fiusav/doc/organon/2018/2/142-154.pdf
%9 State
%2 Articles
%3 142154