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How Essentialism Properly Understood Might Reconcile Realism and Social Constructivism

  • Spohn W
Springer International Publishing, (2014), 255-265
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-04382-1_17
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The paper attempts to reconcile realism and constructivism (i) by endorsing an essentialist conception of the individuation of objects, (ii) by pointing to the conventional character of the essential/accidental distinction, (iii) by noticing that conventions may...

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Spohn, W. (2014). How Essentialism Properly Understood Might Reconcile Realism and Social Constructivism. In New Directions in the Philosophy of Science (pp. 255–265). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04382-1_17

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