Soren Haggqvist
Biographic Data
| ID | 1237507 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Soren Haggqvist |
| GIVEN NAMES | Soren |
| FAMILY NAME | Haggqvist |
| SIGNATURE | HAGGQVIST S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stockholm University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8170-598X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Natural Kinds and Natural Kind Terms: Myth and Reality
The article examines the role of natural kinds in semantic theorizing, which has largely been conducted in isolation from relevant work in science, metaphysics, and philosophy of science. We argue that the Kripke–Putnam account of natural kind terms, despite recent claims to the contrary, depends on a certain metaphysics of natural kinds; that the metaphysics usually assumed—micro-essentialism—is untenable even in a ‘placeholder’ version; and tha…
Teleosemantics: Etiological Foundations
Teleosemantics is a naturalistic research programme in the philosophy of mind and language. Its ambition is to achieve a reduction, first, of mental content to teleological function; second, of teleological function to non-teleological notions. This article explores the second step, particularly as envisaged by Millikan's etiological theory of function
Essentialism and Rigidity
Michael Della Rocca has recently argued that Kripkean essentialism is subtly self‐defeating: to defend it, certain modal intuitions must be reconstrued in terms of similarity, but reconstruing them in this way threatens the principled rejection of similarity comparisons on which Kripke's essentialism depends. Della Rocca holds that Kripke's strategy must assume the necessity of identity, and that the necessity of identity already presupposes esse…
Thought Experiments in Philosophy
Natural Kinds and Natural Kind Terms: Myth and Reality
The article examines the role of natural kinds in semantic theorizing, which has largely been conducted in isolation from relevant work in science, metaphysics, and philosophy of science. We argue that the Kripke–Putnam account of natural kind terms, despite recent claims to the contrary, depends on a certain metaphysics of natural kinds; that the metaphysics usually assumed—micro-essentialism—is untenable even in a ‘placeholder’ version; and tha…
Teleosemantics: Etiological Foundations
Teleosemantics is a naturalistic research programme in the philosophy of mind and language. Its ambition is to achieve a reduction, first, of mental content to teleological function; second, of teleological function to non-teleological notions. This article explores the second step, particularly as envisaged by Millikan's etiological theory of function
Thought Experiments in Philosophy
Essentialism and Rigidity
Michael Della Rocca has recently argued that Kripkean essentialism is subtly self‐defeating: to defend it, certain modal intuitions must be reconstrued in terms of similarity, but reconstruing them in this way threatens the principled rejection of similarity comparisons on which Kripke's essentialism depends. Della Rocca holds that Kripke's strategy must assume the necessity of identity, and that the necessity of identity already presupposes esse…
Teleosemantics: Etiological Foundations
Teleosemantics is a naturalistic research programme in the philosophy of mind and language. Its ambition is to achieve a reduction, first, of mental content to teleological function; second, of teleological function to non-teleological notions. This article explores the second step, particularly as envisaged by Millikan's etiological theory of function
Natural Kinds and Natural Kind Terms: Myth and Reality
The article examines the role of natural kinds in semantic theorizing, which has largely been conducted in isolation from relevant work in science, metaphysics, and philosophy of science. We argue that the Kripke–Putnam account of natural kind terms, despite recent claims to the contrary, depends on a certain metaphysics of natural kinds; that the metaphysics usually assumed—micro-essentialism—is untenable even in a ‘placeholder’ version; and tha…
Epistemology (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Philosophy and Theoretical Science (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (2 works) · Essentialism (2 works) · Identity (music) (2 works) · Metaphysics (2 works) · Analytic philosophy (1 works) · Biology (1 works)