Penelope Mackie

Biographic Data

ID3866029
NAMEPenelope Mackie
GIVEN NAMESPenelope
FAMILY NAMEMackie
SIGNATUREMACKIE P
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Nottingham
ORCID0000-0001-8960-0851
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS6
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1973
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX1

  • Ability, relevant possibilities, and the fixity of the past

    Open AccessPenelope MackieARTICLEPhilosophical Studies2022

    In several writings, John Martin Fischer has argued that those who deny a principle about abilities that he calls ‘the Fixity of the Past’ are committed to absurd conclusions concerning practical reasoning. I argue that Fischer’s ‘practical rationality’ argument does not succeed. First, Fischer’s argument may be vulnerable to the charge that it relies on an equivocation concerning the notion of an ‘accessible’ possible world. Secondly, even if Fi…

  • Persistence and modality

    Open AccessPenelope MackieARTICLESynthese2021References: 12

    It seems plausible to say that what changes an entity can or cannot survive depends on its persistence conditions, and that these depend, in turn, on its sortal kind. It might seem to follow that an entity cannot belong to two sortal kinds with potentially conflicting persistence conditions. Notoriously, though, this conclusion is denied by ‘contingent identity’ theorists, who hold, for example, that a permanently coincident statue and piece of c…

  • Can Metaphysical Modality Be Based on Essence?

    Penelope MackieCHAPTERMetaphysics, Meaning, and Modality2020

    In his hugely influential paper “Essence and Modality” (1994), Kit Fine argued that the then orthodox view that essence can be understood in terms of metaphysical modality is fundamentally flawed. He proposed, in its place, the view that all metaphysical modality has its source in the essences or natures of things, where the notion of a thing’s essence or nature can be understood in terms of a broadly Aristotelian notion of real definition. This …

  • Science and Necessity

    Penelope Mackie, John Bigelow et al.ARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly1995

    Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Science and Necessity. By John Bigelow and Robert Pargetter. (Cambridge UP, 1991. Pp. x + 410. Price £35.00.) Penelope Mackie Penelope Mackie University of Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 45, Issue 180, July 1995, Pages 384–387, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219661 Published: 01 July 1995

  • Sortal Concepts and Essential Properties

    Penelope MackieARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly1994Cited by: 4

    Journal Article Sortal Concepts and Essential Properties Get access Penelope Mackie Penelope Mackie New College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 44, Issue 176, July 1994, Pages 311–333, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219612 Published: 01 July 1994

  • Causing, enabling, and counterfactual dependence

    Open AccessPenelope MackieARTICLEPhilosophical Studies1991Cited by: 1

  • Transport planning in a multi-resource context

    Penelope Mackie, P J MackieARTICLERegional Studies1973Cited by: 1References: 2