Sonia Roca‐roye
Biographic Data
| ID | 3866049 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sonia Roca‐roye |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sonia |
| FAMILY NAME | Roca‐roye |
| SIGNATURE | ROYE S R |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Essentialism vis-à-vis Possibilia, Modal Logic, and Necessitism
Pace Necessitism - roughly, the view that existence is not contingent - essential properties provide necessary conditions for the existence of objects. Sufficiency properties, by contrast, provide sufficient conditions, and individual essences provide necessary and sufficient conditions. This paper explains how these kinds of properties can be used to illuminate the ontological status of merely possible objects and to construct a respectable poss…
Teaching & Learning Guide for
This guide accompanies the following articles: Sonia Roca-Royes, 'Essentialism vis-à-vis Possibilia, Modal Logic, and Necessitism.'Philosophy Compass 6/1 (2011): 54-64. doi: 10.1111/j.1747-9991.2010.00363.x. Sonia Roca-Royes, 'Essential Properties and Individual Essences.'Philosophy Compass 6/1 (2011): 65-77. doi: 10.1111/j.1747-9991.2010.00364.x.Author's IntroductionIntuitively, George Clooney could lose a finger and he would still be him. Also …
Essential Properties and Individual Essences
According toEssentialism, an object's properties divide into those that are essential and those that are accidental. Whilebeing humanis commonly thought to be essential to Socrates,being a philosopherplausibly is not. We can motivate the distinction by appealing - as we just did - to examples. However, it is not obvious how best to characterize the notion ofessential property, nor is it easy to give conclusive arguments for the essentiality of a …
Essential Properties and Individual Essences
According toEssentialism, an object's properties divide into those that are essential and those that are accidental. Whilebeing humanis commonly thought to be essential to Socrates,being a philosopherplausibly is not. We can motivate the distinction by appealing - as we just did - to examples. However, it is not obvious how best to characterize the notion ofessential property, nor is it easy to give conclusive arguments for the essentiality of a …
Essentialism vis-à-vis Possibilia, Modal Logic, and Necessitism
Pace Necessitism - roughly, the view that existence is not contingent - essential properties provide necessary conditions for the existence of objects. Sufficiency properties, by contrast, provide sufficient conditions, and individual essences provide necessary and sufficient conditions. This paper explains how these kinds of properties can be used to illuminate the ontological status of merely possible objects and to construct a respectable poss…
Teaching & Learning Guide for
This guide accompanies the following articles: Sonia Roca-Royes, 'Essentialism vis-à-vis Possibilia, Modal Logic, and Necessitism.'Philosophy Compass 6/1 (2011): 54-64. doi: 10.1111/j.1747-9991.2010.00363.x. Sonia Roca-Royes, 'Essential Properties and Individual Essences.'Philosophy Compass 6/1 (2011): 65-77. doi: 10.1111/j.1747-9991.2010.00364.x.Author's IntroductionIntuitively, George Clooney could lose a finger and he would still be him. Also …
Essential Properties and Individual Essences
According toEssentialism, an object's properties divide into those that are essential and those that are accidental. Whilebeing humanis commonly thought to be essential to Socrates,being a philosopherplausibly is not. We can motivate the distinction by appealing - as we just did - to examples. However, it is not obvious how best to characterize the notion ofessential property, nor is it easy to give conclusive arguments for the essentiality of a …
Epistemology (3 works) · Essentialism (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy and Theoretical Science (3 works) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Physics (2 works) · Accidental (1 work) · Artificial Intelligence (1 work) · Biology (1 work)