Frederique Janssen‐Lauret
Biographic Data
| ID | 5910895 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frederique Janssen‐Lauret |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frederique |
| FAMILY NAME | Janssen‐Lauret |
| SIGNATURE | LAURET F J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0862-7556 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Teaching women into the history of early analytic philosophy
Reincarnation and anti-essentialism
We argue that Indian speakers’ discourse about reincarnation represents a counterexample to the ordinary-language evidence for the Kripkean thesis of material-origin essentialism. Advocates of the essentiality of origins contend not only that persons have the property of coming from the two particular gametes they actually came from essentially, but also that competent ordinary-language speakers find this view intuitively compelling. We adduce ev…
Ruth Barcan Marcus and quantified modal logic
Analytic philosophy in the mid-twentieth century underwent a major change of direction when a prior consensus in favour of extensionalism and descriptivism made way for approaches using direct reference, the necessity of identity, and modal logic. All three were first defended, in the analytic tradition, by one woman, Ruth Barcan Marcus. But analytic philosophers now tend to credit them to Kripke, or Kripke and Carnap. I argue that seeing Barcan …
Lost voices
This paper introduces a Special Issue of the British Journal for the History of Philosophy on women in philosophy 1880-1970. It argues that there are social, institutional and academic reasons why women philosophers have been excluded from the history of analytic philosophy in this period. There is still time to reverse those tendencies
Anti-essentialism, modal relativity, and alternative material-origin counterfactuals
In ordinary language, in the medical sciences, and in the overlap between them, we frequently make claims which imply that we might have had different gametic origins from the ones we actually have. Such statements seem intuitively true and coherent. But they counterfactually ascribe different DNA to their referents and therefore contradict material-origin essentialism, which Kripke and his followers argue is intuitively obvious. In this paper I …
Committing to an individual
Committing to an individual
Anti-essentialism, modal relativity, and alternative material-origin counterfactuals
In ordinary language, in the medical sciences, and in the overlap between them, we frequently make claims which imply that we might have had different gametic origins from the ones we actually have. Such statements seem intuitively true and coherent. But they counterfactually ascribe different DNA to their referents and therefore contradict material-origin essentialism, which Kripke and his followers argue is intuitively obvious. In this paper I …
Ruth Barcan Marcus and quantified modal logic
Analytic philosophy in the mid-twentieth century underwent a major change of direction when a prior consensus in favour of extensionalism and descriptivism made way for approaches using direct reference, the necessity of identity, and modal logic. All three were first defended, in the analytic tradition, by one woman, Ruth Barcan Marcus. But analytic philosophers now tend to credit them to Kripke, or Kripke and Carnap. I argue that seeing Barcan …
Lost voices
This paper introduces a Special Issue of the British Journal for the History of Philosophy on women in philosophy 1880-1970. It argues that there are social, institutional and academic reasons why women philosophers have been excluded from the history of analytic philosophy in this period. There is still time to reverse those tendencies
Reincarnation and anti-essentialism
We argue that Indian speakers’ discourse about reincarnation represents a counterexample to the ordinary-language evidence for the Kripkean thesis of material-origin essentialism. Advocates of the essentiality of origins contend not only that persons have the property of coming from the two particular gametes they actually came from essentially, but also that competent ordinary-language speakers find this view intuitively compelling. We adduce ev…
Teaching women into the history of early analytic philosophy
Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Philosophy and Theoretical Science (4 works) · Philosophy, Science, and History (4 works) · Metaphysics (3 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (3 works) · Analytic philosophy (2 works) · Counterfactual thinking (2 works) · Essentialism (2 works) · Modal (2 works)