Necessity, Essence, and Individuation : : A Defense of Conventionalism / / Alan Sidelle.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Sidelle, Alan,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1989
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; 1. Realism and Conventionalism --; 2. How to Be a Modern-Day Conventionalist --; 3. Is It Possible to Be a Modern-Day Conventionalist? or, Responding to Some Technical Worries --; 4. The Case for Conventionalism and the Problem with Real Necessity --; 5. The Commitment to Analyticity --; 6. Analyticity and Reference --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501746260; 9783110536171
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501746260
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Alan Sidelle.

Alan Sidelle's Necessity, Essence, and Individuation is a sustained defense of empiricism—or, more generally, conventionalism—against recent attacks by realists. Sidelle focuses his attention on necessity a posteriori, a kind of necessity which contemporary realists have taken to support realism over empiricism. Turning the tables against the realists, Sidelle argues that if there are in fact truths necessary a posteriori, it is not realism, but rather empiricism which provides the best explanation for them.