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<div>1 Contemporary essentialism and real essentialism</div><div>1.1 Against modalism: possible worlds 1</div><div>1.2 Against modalism: Fine’s critique 7</div><div>1.3 Reductionism: the illusory search for inner constitution 12</div><div>1.4 Why real essentialism? 18</div><div>2 Some varieties of anti-essentialism</div><div>2.1 Empiricist anti-essentialism 21</div><div>2.2 Quinean animadversions 25</div><div>2.3 Popper: avoiding ‘what-is?’ questions 30</div><div>2.4 Wittgenstein: the shadow of grammar 38</div><div>3 The reality and knowability of essence</div><div>3.1 Why essences are real 44</div><div>3.2 The ‘problem’ of the universal accidental 47</div><div>3.3 An empirical test for essence? 52</div><div>3.4 Coming to know essence 54</div><div>3.5 ‘Paradigms’, ‘stereotypes’, and classification 57</div><div>4 The structure of essence</div><div>4.1 Hylemorphism: act and potency 62</div><div>4.2 Substantial form 65</div><div>4.3 Prime matter 71</div><div>4.4 Substance 76</div><div>4.5 The immanence of essence 81</div><div>5 Essence and identity</div><div>5.1 Real definition and the true law of identity 86</div><div><div>5.2 The Porphyrian Tree 92</div><div>5.3 The Analogy of Being 105</div><div>5.4 Individuation 108</div><div>5.5 Identity over time 117</div><div>6 Essence and existence</div><div>6.1 The real distinction in contingent beings 121</div><div>6.2 Everything is contingent . ... almost 125</div><div>6.3 Powers 130</div><div>6.4 Laws of nature 143</div><div>7 Aspects of essence</div><div>7.1 Kinds of accident 152</div><div>7.2 The nature of properties 156</div><div>7.3 Knowledge of essence via properties 162</div><div>7.4 Artefacts 166</div><div>7.5 Origin and constitution 170</div><div>8 Life</div><div>8.1 The essence of life 177</div><div>8.2 Kinds of organism 183</div><div>8.3 Against emergence 193</div><div>9 Species, biological and metaphysical</div><div>9.1 Is biological essentialism dead? 201</div><div>9.2 Against the cladistic species concept 214</div><div>9.3 Vagueness 224</div><div>9.4 A plea for morphology 234</div><div>10 The person</div><div>10.1 The essence of personhood 241</div><div>10.2 Hylemorphic dualism 243</div><div>10.3 Consciousness, psychology, and the person 245</div><div>10.4 Form, body, and soul 248</div><div>10.5 Soul, intellect, and immateriality 250</div><div>10.6 Soul, identity, and material dependence 255</div><div>10.7 Conclusion 259</div></div>

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