Ya shouldn'ta couldn'ta wouldn'ta

Steward Stephen

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(2015) Synthese 192 (6).

Ya shouldn'ta couldn'ta wouldn'ta

Stephen Steward

pp. 1909-1921

In a recent issue of this journal, Berit Brogaard and Joe Salerno presented a counterfactual theory of essence, designed to get around Kit Fine’s influential objections to the standard modal account of essence. I argue that Brogaard and Salerno’s theory does not avoid Fine’s objections. Then I propose a sequence of variations on their theory, and argue that none of them succeed either.

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DOI: 10.1007/s11229-015-0663-y

Full citation:

Steward, S. (2015). Ya shouldn'ta couldn'ta wouldn'ta. Synthese 192 (6), pp. 1909-1921.

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