(Finean) Essence and (Priorean) Modality

Essence and Modality

The concept of essence has played an important role in the history and development of philosophy; and in no branch of the discipline is its importance more manifest than in metaphysics. Its significance for metaphysics is perhaps attributable to two main sources. In the first place, the concept may be used to characterize what the subject, or at least part of it, is about. For one of the centra...

Essence and Modality∗

∗This paper was published in Mind , 115/459 (July 2006): 659–693. Note: In transferring the LTEX in this preprint to the format used for publication in Mind, a couple of symbols were omitted. This preprint can be used to determine what the missing symbols are. †I’d like to thank Adriano Palma and Sacha Bourgeois-Gironde for inviting me to prepare this material and present it at the École Normal...

Engström-Finean Biological Ultrastructure

on active research in the field of delayed hypersensitivity. Indeed his own contributions appear, not inappropriately, in many parts of the present volume. He has prepared a reasonably comprehensive, well-balanced treatment of the topic, which offers somewhat greater detail than the recent review published by J. Uhr in Physiological Revuiews (1966) and the unified collection of papers by Britis...

Logic, Essence, and Modality A Critical Review of Bob Hale’s Necessary Beings

Bob Hale’s distinguished record of research places him among the most important and influential contemporary analytic metaphysicians. In his deep, wide ranging, yet highly readable book Necessary Beings, Hale draws upon, but substantially integrates and extends, a good deal his past research to produce a sustained and richly textured essay on — as promised in the subtitle — ontology, modality, ...

Priorean Strict Implication, Q and Related Systems