The Routledge Handbook of Essence in Philosophy (Paperback, 1)

Introduction?Kathrin Koslicki and Michael J. Raven??Part 1: History??1. Ancient?Marko Malink??2. Medieval?Gloria Frost??3. Modern?Anat Schechtman??4. Pragmatism?Andrew Howat??5. Contemporary (Phenomenological Tradition)?Kevin Mulligan??6. Contemporary (Analytic Tradition)?Robert Michels??Part 2: Essence and Essentialisms: Themes and Variations??7. Modal Conceptions of Essence?Alessandro Torza??8. Non-modal Conceptions of Essence?Fabrice Correia??9. Essences of Individuals?Marco Marabello??10. Natural Kind Essentialsm?Tuomas Tahko??11. Origin Essentialism?Teresa Robertson Ishii??12. Scientific Essentialism?Travis Dumsday??13. Dispositional Essentialism?Ka Ho Lam??14. Epistemology of Essence?Antonella Mallozzi??15. Language of Essence?Katherine Ritchie??16. Logic of Essence?Jon Litland??Part 3: Applications??17. Artifacts, Artworks, and Social Objects?Asya Passinsky??18. Biological Species?Ingo Brigandt??19. Identity, Persistence, and Individuation?Maria Scarpati??20. Essence, Grounding, and Explanation?David Kovacs??21. The "Reduction" of Necessity to Non-Modal Essence?Kathrin Koslicki??22. Persons?Annina Loets??23. Psychiatric Kinds?Danielle Brown??24. Race?Ron Mallon??25. Sex and Gender?Esther Rosario??26. Social Justice?Natalie Stoljar??27. Unity?Charlotte Witt??28. Ethical Value?Julie Tannenbaum and Stavroula Glezakos??Part 4: Anti-essentialist Challenges??29. Quinean Anti-Essentialism?Kit Fine??30. Conventionalism?Alan Sidelle and Jonathan Livingstone-Banks??31. Social Construction?Aaron Griffith??32. Conferralism?Anand Vaidya and Michael Wallner??33. Wittgenstein?Arata Hamawaki.??Index