Sonia Roca-Royes
Biographic Data
| ID | 5968226 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sonia Roca-Royes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sonia |
| FAMILY NAME | Roca-Royes |
| SIGNATURE | ROCA-ROYES S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Stirling |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6101-3353 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Kantian Modality vis-à-vis Neo-Aristotelian Modality
The paper discusses Jessica Leech's Modal Transcendentalism. In particular, it engages critically with the claim that her Objective Necessity, of Kantian inspiration, in being the strictest real necessity, earns the title of Metaphysical Necessity. I argue that a Neo-Aristotelian Modality better deserves that title, but that this discussion is ultimately a distraction, with the danger of making us see these two modalities as competitors of one an…
Genuine Modal Realism, the Humean thesis and advanced modalizing
The paper argues that Lewis’ Genuine Modal Realism, in taking the plurality of worlds to be necessarily the way it is, implies the existence of necessary connections of the sort that contradicts the Humean thesis that Lewis endorses. By endorsing, pace Divers, a non-redundancy interpretation of advanced modalizing, we gain the means to exactly state what these connections amount to
Similarity and Possibility
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 …
How Things Might Have Been
Book Review| April 01 2009 How Things Might Have Been: Individuals, Kinds, and Essential Properties Penelope Mackie, How Things Might Have Been: Individuals, Kinds, and Essential Properties. Oxford: Clarendon, 2006. xii + 212 pp. Sonia Roca-Royes Sonia Roca-Royes Logos—Logic, Language, and Cognition Research Group Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (2): 266–269. https://doi.org/10.1215/0…
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 …
Genuine Modal Realism, the Humean thesis and advanced modalizing
The paper argues that Lewis’ Genuine Modal Realism, in taking the plurality of worlds to be necessarily the way it is, implies the existence of necessary connections of the sort that contradicts the Humean thesis that Lewis endorses. By endorsing, pace Divers, a non-redundancy interpretation of advanced modalizing, we gain the means to exactly state what these connections amount to
How Things Might Have Been
Book Review| April 01 2009 How Things Might Have Been: Individuals, Kinds, and Essential Properties Penelope Mackie, How Things Might Have Been: Individuals, Kinds, and Essential Properties. Oxford: Clarendon, 2006. xii + 212 pp. Sonia Roca-Royes Sonia Roca-Royes Logos—Logic, Language, and Cognition Research Group Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (2): 266–269. https://doi.org/10.1215/0…
How Things Might Have Been
Book Review| April 01 2009 How Things Might Have Been: Individuals, Kinds, and Essential Properties Penelope Mackie, How Things Might Have Been: Individuals, Kinds, and Essential Properties. Oxford: Clarendon, 2006. xii + 212 pp. Sonia Roca-Royes Sonia Roca-Royes Logos—Logic, Language, and Cognition Research Group Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (2): 266–269. https://doi.org/10.1215/0…
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 …
Similarity and Possibility
Genuine Modal Realism, the Humean thesis and advanced modalizing
The paper argues that Lewis’ Genuine Modal Realism, in taking the plurality of worlds to be necessarily the way it is, implies the existence of necessary connections of the sort that contradicts the Humean thesis that Lewis endorses. By endorsing, pace Divers, a non-redundancy interpretation of advanced modalizing, we gain the means to exactly state what these connections amount to
Kantian Modality vis-à-vis Neo-Aristotelian Modality
The paper discusses Jessica Leech's Modal Transcendentalism. In particular, it engages critically with the claim that her Objective Necessity, of Kantian inspiration, in being the strictest real necessity, earns the title of Metaphysical Necessity. I argue that a Neo-Aristotelian Modality better deserves that title, but that this discussion is ultimately a distraction, with the danger of making us see these two modalities as competitors of one an…
Philosophy and Theoretical Science (7 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Essentialism (4 works) · Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge (3 works) · Physics (3 works) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (2 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (2 works) · Mathematics (2 works)