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- Title
An Analysis of Intrinsicality.
- Authors
Marshall, Dan
- Abstract
The leading account of intrinsicality over the last thirty years has arguably been David Lewis's account in terms of perfect naturalness. Lewis's account, however, has three serious problems: i) it cannot allow necessarily coextensive properties to differ in whether they are intrinsic; ii) it falsely classifies non-qualitative properties like being Obama as non-intrinsic; and iii) it is incompatible with a number of metaphysical theories that posit irreducibly non-categorical properties. I argue that, as a result of these problems, Lewis's account should be rejected and replaced with an alternative account, which also analyses intrinsicality in terms of perfect naturalness, but which avoids these problems.
- Subjects
LEWIS, David; NATURALNESS (Linguistics); IRREDUCIBILITY (Philosophy); NONCATEGORICAL education; INFORMATION theory
- Publication
Nous, 2016, Vol 50, Issue 4, p704
- ISSN
0029-4624
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/nous.12087