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Spinelli, Nicola (2016) Husserlian essentialism revisited : a study of essence, necessity and predication. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.
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Abstract
Husserlian Essentialism is the view, maintained byEdmundHusserl throughout his career, that necessary truths obtain because essentialist truths obtain. In this thesis I have two goals. First, to reconstruct and flesh out Husserlian Essentialism and its connections with surrounding areas of Husserl's philosophy in full detail – something which has not been done yet. Second, to assess the theoretical solidity of the view.
As regards the second point, after having presented Husserlian Essentialism in the first two chapters, I raise a serious problem for it in Chapter 3. In the remainder of the thesis I endeavour to solve the problem. In order to do so, I propose to amend both Husserl's theory of essence and his theory of predication.
The bulk of the emendation consists in working out an account of essence and an account of predication that do not presuppose, or in any way imply, the claims that: 1) for a universal to be in the essence of an object, either the object or one of its parts must instantiate the universal; 2) for a universal to be truly predicated of an object, either the object or one of its parts must instantiate the universal. These claims, notice, apart from being what gets Husserl in trouble, are well entrenched not only in Husserl's, but in most theories of essence and predication (at least in those that feature universals). It is thus interesting to see what an alternative option may be – even regardless of the Husserlian setting in which I work it out.
| Item Type: | Thesis or Dissertation (PhD) | ||||
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) | ||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Husserl, Edmund, 1859-1938 -- Criticism and interpretation, Essentialism (Philosophy) | ||||
| Official Date: | March 2016 | ||||
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| Institution: | University of Warwick | ||||
| Theses Department: | Department of Philosophy | ||||
| Thesis Type: | PhD | ||||
| Publication Status: | Unpublished | ||||
| Supervisor(s)/Advisor: | Hoerl, Christoph ; Longworth, Guy ; Smith, A. D. (Arthur David) | ||||
| Sponsors: | University of Warwick | ||||
| Extent: | xii, 294 leaves | ||||
| Language: | eng |
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