Philosophical Studies

An Ontological Essay

By: Gary S. Rosenkrantz, G. S. Rosenkrantz

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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.

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Preface
Introductory Preliminaires	p. 1
Haecceity: An Initial Account	p. 1
Qualitative and Nonqualitative Abstracta	p. 6
Controversies About Haecceities	p. 11
Modal Concepts	p. 16
Cognitive and Linguistic Concepts	p. 22
Haecceities and Individual Essences	p. 42
Varieties of Realism and Anti-Realism	p. 53
The Concrete/Abstract Distinction	p. 56
Qualitative and Nonqualitative Properties	p. 69
The Problem of Individuation	p. 72
Metaphysical Explanations	p. 72
Qualitatively Indistinguishable Concreta	p. 77
Proposed Criteria of Individuation	p. 82
Principles of Evaluation for the Proposed Criteria	p. 93
Evaluations of the Proposed Criteria	p. 97
The Haecceity Criterion: Neither Trivial Nor Circular	p. 106
Responses To A Priori Objections to Haecceity	p. 124
Haecceity: A Metaphysical Explanation of Diversity	p. 130
Haecceities and Nonexistent Possible Individuals	p. 140
The Individuation of NEPs	p. 140
The Individuation of Disjoint Objects	p. 146
Objections To Unexemplified Haecceities: A Reply	p. 150
The Unity of Metaphysical Modalities	p. 166
Singular Reference and Unexemplified Haecceities	p. 168
Mereological Descriptions of Unexemplified Haecceities	p. 168
Causal Descriptions of Unexemplified Haecceities	p. 179
Acquaintance	p. 184
Haecceities and Acquaintance	p. 184
Haecceities and Re-identification	p. 191
An Argument for Premise 1 of R	p. 196
An Argument for Premise 2 of R	p. 198
Synchronic Versions of R	p. 204
Objections to R and its Analogs: A Rebuttal	p. 214
Divine Cognition and Haecceities	p. 220
The Objects of Acquaintance	p. 225
Objections to Russellian Objects of Acquaintance: A Response	p. 236
Cognitively Inaccessible Haecceities	p. 241
Index of Names	p. 245
Index of Subjects	p. 247
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