Identifying Primitive Individuals
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22109477 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Wörner (0000-0001-6529-1214, University of Stuttgart, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 0 |
| Publication date | 2024-11-26 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ergo an Open Access Journal of Philosophy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2330-4014 • E-ISSN: 2330-4014 |
| Publisher | University of Michigan Library (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.3998/ergo.6920 |
| OpenAlex | W4404749390 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 25 |
According to a widespread contention, individuals are among the basic building blocks of the world. The contention, however, raises a perennial problem. If individuals are basic, they cannot be fully accounted for in terms of their empirically detectable qualities. But then, how can we detect, or know, or identify, individuals? Shamik Dasgupta has influentially argued that considerations along these lines, together with a lesson from the history of physics, should make us reject any picture on which individuals are basic constituents of reality. In this paper, I defend such a picture against Dasgupta’s argument
Biology · Evolutionary biology · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Philosophy and History of Science · Philosophy and Theoretical Science
The Tools of Metaphysics and the Metaphysics of Science
Reference and Consciousness
Individuals
Primitive Thisness and Primitive Identity
No Work for a Theory of Grounding
The Unity of Grounding
Modality
Locke's equivocal category of substance
Qualitative properties and relations
Qualitative Grounds
Intrinsic/extrinsic
Studies in the Logic of Explanation
Buckets of Water and Waves of Space
Haecceitism, Chance, and Counterfactuals
Inexpressible Ignorance
On the Application of Inductive Logic
Symmetry as an Epistemic Notion (Twice Over)
Fact, fiction, and forecast
Haecceitism, Anti-Haecceitism and Possible Worlds
| Highly cited | No |
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