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Personal Identity

Properties

(Text as at 06/07/2023 00:43:12)

Plug Note¹

• Thesis Text:
  1. Properties are relevant to the topic of Personal Identity because it is the possession of incompatible properties at different times that is the explanation of change². And, the key question in Personal Identity – other than what we are³ – is what changes we can undergo and still persist⁴.
  2. Consequently, the problem of Temporary Intrinsics⁵, which are intrinsic (ie. non-relational) properties that are “just had” by a persisting object at some time(s) but not others, is central to the explanation of change, and to the decision whether Endurantism⁶, Perdurantism⁷ or Exdurantism⁸ is the better account of persistence.
  3. This topic also relates to that of Universals⁹, which is what realists claim properties to be.
  4. Properties are usually said to be had by substances¹⁰, so seem to depend on a substance metaphysics. Presumably they can be had by processes in a process metaphysics¹¹?
  5. Lynne Rudder Baker’s Constitution View¹² makes a great play on her distinction between having properties derivatively and having them essentially; the constituted¹³ thing can have some properties derived from the constituting object, and others on its own account.
  6. So, says Baker¹⁴, a person’s weight is derived from the weight of her body while her status as “employed” is had essentially. Maybe another example is clearer, as it doesn’t involve the contentious claim that persons are separable from human animals: a statue has its value essentially but its weight derivatively. The value of the constituting matter will usually differ from – and be less than – that of the statue.
  7. Note that there’s a distinction between two contrasts – between Intrinsic and Extrinsic properties and those held Derivatively and Essentially. The two contrasts don’t map onto one another. Value may be essential, but it is not intrinsic – unlike mass – as it depends on evaluation by an art-world. Awkwardly, weight – rather than mass – is an extrinsic property, depending as it does on the local presence of a massive gravitating body.

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  Further Remarks:
  1. This topic strays into the area of Theology when the Ontological Argument¹⁵ claims (or seems to claim) that existence¹⁶ is a property. "Malcolm (Norman) - Anselm's Ontological Arguments" suggests that necessary existence is a better candidate for being a property.
  2. See also the Note on Forensic Properties¹⁷.

References

• Relevant Works cited above:
  1. "Malcolm (Norman) - Anselm's Ontological Arguments", 1960, Internal PDF Link, Read
• For a Page of Links¹⁸ to this Note, Click here. Unfortunately there are far too many links for an updating run, so I’ve just used it to dig out whatever it is I’ve read₁₉ on the topic.
• Works on this topic that I’ve actually read²⁰, include the following:-
  • Aeon:
    1. "Dupre (John) - Metaphysics of metamorphosis", 2017, External Link, Internal PDF Link
  • General:
    1. "Abelson (Raziel) - Not Necessarily", 1961, Internal PDF Link
    2. "Armstrong (David) - In Conclusion (Universals and Scientific Realism Vol. 2: A Theory of Universals)", 1978
    3. "Armstrong (David) - Introduction to Universals and Scientific Realism Vol. 1 (Nominalism and Realism)", 1977
    4. "Armstrong (David) - The Argument of Universals and Scientific Realism Vol. 1 (Nominalism and Realism)", 1978
    5. "Armstrong (David) - The Argument of Universals and Scientific Realism Vol. 2 (A Theory of Universals)", 1977
    6. "Armstrong (David) - What is a Law of Nature? Conclusions", 1985
    7. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Brief Reply to Rosenkrantz's Comments on my 'The Ontological Status of Persons'", 2002, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    8. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Naturalism and the First-Person Perspective: What Is The Problem?", 2013
    9. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Persons in the Material World", 2000, Write-Up Note²¹, Internal PDF Link
    10. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Precis of 'Persons & Bodies: A Constitution View'", 2001, Write-Up Note²², Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    11. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Selfless Persons: Goodness in an Impersonal World?", 2015, External Link
    12. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - The Coherence Of the Idea of Material Constitution", 2000, Write-Up Note²³, Internal PDF Link
    13. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - The Constitution View of Human Persons", 2000, Write-Up Note²⁴, Internal PDF Link
    14. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - The Very Idea of Constitution", 2000, Write-Up Note²⁵, Internal PDF Link
    15. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Unity without Identity: A New Look at Material Constitution", 1999, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    16. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - When Do Persons Begin and End?", 2005, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    17. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Why Constitution is Not Identity", 1997, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    18. "Baylis (Charles A.) - Review Article: The Identity of Indiscernibles", 1956, Internal PDF Link
    19. "Brandon (Ed) - Review of Galen Strawson's 'Consciousness and Its Place in Nature: Does Physicalism Entail Panpsychism?'", 2007, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    20. "Butchvarov (Panayot) - Being Qua Being: Introduction", 1979
    21. "Corcoran (Kevin) - Soul, Body and Survival: Introduction - Soul or Body?", 2001
    22. "Crane (Tim) - Body", 2001, Write-Up Note²⁶
    23. "Crane (Tim) & Farkas (Katalin) - Universals and Particulars: Introduction", 2004, Annotations
    24. "DeGrazia (David) - Great Apes, Dolphins, and the Concept of Personhood", 1997, Annotations
    25. "Denby (David) - The Distinction between Intrinsic and Extrinsic Properties", 2006, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    26. "Dore (Clement) - Ontological Arguments", 1999
    27. "Feldman (Fred) - Life-Functional Theories of Life", 1992
    28. "Feldman (Fred) - On Dying as a Process", 1992
    29. "Gale (Richard) - On Some Pernicious Thought-Experiments", 1991, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    30. "Gasser (Georg) - Personal Identity and Resurrection: Introduction", 2010, Annotations
    31. "Geisler (Norman) & Corduan (Winfried) - Ontological Arguments", 2003, Internal PDF Link
    32. "Gert (Bernard), Lizza (John), Youngner (Stuart) & Chiong (Winston) - Matters of 'Life' and 'Death'", 2006, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    33. "Hawley (Katherine) - Merricks on Whether Being Conscious is Intrinsic", 1998, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    34. "Hershenov (David) - Review of Nancey Murphy's 'Bodies and Souls, or Spirited Bodies?'", 2007, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    35. "Jenkins (Phil) - Review of Galen Strawson's 'Selves'", 2010, External Link
    36. "Kurtz (Roxanne) - Introduction to Persistence: What’s the Problem?", 2006, Write-Up Note²⁷, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    37. "Lavelle (Suilin) - Minds, Brains and Computers", 2013, Internal PDF Link
    38. "LePoidevin (Robin) - Travels in Four Dimensions: Concluding Thoughts", 2003, Annotations
    39. "Lewis (David) - Attitudes De Dicto and De Se", 1979, Internal PDF Link
    40. "Lewis (David) - On the Plurality of Worlds (Selections)", 2006
    41. "Lewis (David) - The Problem of Temporary Intrinsics", 1986
    42. "Lowe (E.J.) - More Kinds of Being: Preface", 2015
    43. "Malcolm (Norman) - Anselm's Ontological Arguments", 1960, Internal PDF Link
    44. "McDowell (John) - Values and Secondary Qualities", 1985, Write-Up Note²⁸
    45. "McGill (V.J.) - Review of Minds, Brains and People by T. E. Wilkerson", 1975, Internal PDF Link
    46. "McGinn (Colin) - Précis of 'Logical Properties: Identity, Existence, Prediction, Necessity, Truth'", 2004, Internal PDF Link
    47. "Mellor (D.H.) - Real Time II: Introduction", 1998
    48. "Mellor (D.H.) - Real Time II: Preface", 1998
    49. "Mellor (D.H.) - Real Time: Introduction and Summary", 1991
    50. "Merricks (Trenton) - Against the Doctrine of Microphysical Supervenience", 1998, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    51. "Moreland (J.P.) - Extreme Nominalism and Properties", 2001, No Abstract
    52. "Moreland (J.P.) - The Problem(s) of Universals", 2001
    53. "Moreland (J.P.) & Rae (Scott) - Human Persons as Substances or Property-Things", 2000, Write-Up Note²⁹
    54. "Noonan (Harold) - Review of 'Kinds of Being: A Study of Individuation, Identity and the Logic of Sortal Terms' by E. J. Lowe", 1991, Internal PDF Link
    55. "Olson (Eric) - Persistence", 1999
    56. "Olson (Eric) - What Are We? The Question", 2007, Write-Up Note³⁰, Internal PDF Link
    57. "Papineau (David) - Introducing Consciousness", 2000, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    58. "Papineau (David) - The Importance of Philosophical Intuition", 2009
    59. "Parfit (Derek) - Nagel's Brain", 1986
    60. "Peterson (Michael), Hasker (William), Reichenbach (Bruce) & Basinger (David) - Theistic Arguments: The Case for God's Existence", 1991
    61. "Searle (John) - Reductionism and the Irreducibility of Consciousness", 1992
    62. "Shoemaker (Sydney) - Causality and Properties", 2003
    63. "Shoemaker (Sydney) - Self, Body, and Coincidence", 1999, Annotations
    64. "Sider (Ted) - Review of Lynne Rudder Baker, Persons and Bodies", 2002, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    65. "Simons (Peter) - Parts: A Study in Ontology - Concluding Remarks", 1987, Annotations
    66. "Snowdon (Paul) - Philosophy and the Mind/Body Problem", 2015, External Link
    67. "Snowdon (Paul) - The Self and Personal Identity", 2009, Write-Up Note³¹
    68. "Swoyer (Chris) - Theories of Properties: From Plenitude To Paucity", 1996, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
    69. "Taylor (James Stacey) - The Myth of Posthumous Harm", 2005, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    70. "Thomas (Janice L.) - Criticisms of materialism - is the physical enough?", 2000
    71. "Thomas (Janice L.) - Davidson's anomalous monism", 2000
    72. "Thomas (Janice L.) - Descartes' arguments for dualism", 2000
    73. "Thomas (Janice L.) - Functionalism", 2000
    74. "Thomas (Janice L.) - Other arguments for dualism", 2000
    75. "Thomas (Janice L.) - The identity theory", 2000
    76. "Van Inwagen (Peter) - Material Beings: Preface", 1990, Annotations
    77. "Van Inwagen (Peter) - Metaphysics: Part One: The Way The World Is - Introduction", 2009
    78. "Van Inwagen (Peter) - Necessary Being: the Ontological Argument", 1999
    79. "Wilkerson (T.E.) - Two Kinds of Metaphysics", 1974
    80. "Wilson (Jack) - Beyond Horses and Oak Trees: A New Theory of Individuation for Living Entities", 1999, Annotations
    81. "Zimmerman (Dean) - Bodily Resurrection: The Falling Elevator Model Revisited", 2010, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
• A reading list that is relevant to my Thesis on Personal Identity, and is not already covered by the works above, is difficult to construct. A further reading list might start with:-
  • General:
    1. "Armstrong (David) - Properties", 1978
    2. "Browning (Douglas) - Sameness Through Change and the Coincidence of Properties", 1988, Internal PDF Link
    3. "Evans (Gareth) - Identity and Predication", 1975, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
    4. "Geach (Peter) - The Perils of Pauline", 1969, Internal PDF Link
    5. "Heintz (John) - Property Existence and Identity", 1973, Internal PDF Link
    6. "Jubien (Michael) - Some Properties of Things", 1993
    7. "Koslicki (Kathrin) - Questions of Ontology", 2016, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
    8. "Levinson (Jerrold) - Why There Are No Tropes", 2006, Internal PDF Link
    9. "Marcus (Ruth Barcan) - Essential Attribution", 1971, Internal PDF Link
    10. "Marshall (Dan) & Weatherson (Brian) - Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Properties", 2002-18, Internal PDF Link, Read = 8%
    11. "Martin (Robert) - It's not that easy being grue", 1990, Internal PDF Link
    12. "McGinn (Colin) - Logical Properties", 2003, Book, Read = 11%
    13. "McGinn (Colin) - Predication", 2000, Internal PDF Link
    14. "Mellor (D.H.) & Oliver (Alex) - Properties : Introduction", 2002
    15. "Mellor (D.H.) & Oliver (Alex), Eds. - Properties: Oxford Readings in Philosophy", 2002, Book
    16. "Moore (G.E.), Stout (G.F.) & Hicks (G. Dawes) - Symposium: Are the Characteristics of Particular Things Universal or Particular?", 1923, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link, Read = 2%
    17. "Olson (Eric) - Properties as parts of ordinary objects", 2017, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
    18. "Parsons (Josh) - Distributional Properties", 2004, Internal PDF Link
    19. "Parsons (Terence) - Essentialism and Quantified Modal Logic", 1969, Internal PDF Link
    20. "Parsons (Terence) - Grades of Essentialism in Quantified Modal Logic", 1967, Internal PDF Link
    21. "Rosenberg (Alexander) - Mackie and Shoemaker on Dispositions and Properties", 1984
    22. "Schaffer (Jonathan) - The Individuation Of Tropes", 2001, Internal PDF Link
    23. "Sider (Ted) - Maximality and Intrinsic Properties", 2001, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
    24. "Simons (Peter) - Particulars in Particular Clothing: Three Trope Theories of Substance", 1994, Internal PDF Link
    25. "Sprigge (Timothy L.S.) - Internal and External Properties", 1962, Internal PDF Link
    26. "Teller (Paul) - Essential Properties: Some Problems and Conjectures", 1975, Internal PDF Link
    27. "Trettin (Kathe) - New Literature on Tropes", 2004, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    28. "Valentyne (Peter) - Intrinsic Properties Defined", 1997, No Abstract
    29. "Van Inwagen (Peter) - A theory of properties", 2004, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
    30. "Weatherson (Brian) - Intrinsic Properties and Combinatorial Principles", 2001, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    31. "Williams (Neil Edward) - The ungrounded argument is unfounded: a response to Mumford", 2009, Internal PDF Link, Read = 8%
    32. "Yablo (Stephen) - Intrinsicness", 1999, External Link, Internal PDF Link
• For further papers held on-line of potential interest, follow this Link³². Total papers = 1.

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• For a list of Works that have been considered, but have missed the cut for inclusion in this Section of my Thesis, see the following:-
  1. Read: No items to list.
  2. Further Reading: No items to list.
• This is mostly a place-holder³³.

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In-Page Footnotes:

Footnote 19:

• This search revealed 327 items that I’d read that mentioned “property” or properties, so I’ve only given their titles a superficial eyeballing to see whether they are worth itemising.

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Table of the Previous 10 Versions of this Note:

Date	Length	Title
20/09/2022 11:24:00	8003	Properties
04/05/2022 11:19:41	7676	Properties
02/07/2021 20:32:38	7437	Properties
16/02/2021 01:00:29	6592	Properties
30/09/2020 01:16:19	5433	Properties
21/10/2018 18:48:58	7359	Properties
16/10/2017 10:43:41	1827	Properties
26/03/2014 19:24:58	873	Properties
26/11/2007 23:25:26	84	Properties
12/08/2007 10:17:46	80	Properties

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Note last updated	Reading List for this Topic	Parent Topic
06/07/2023 00:43:12	Properties	Substance

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Summary of Notes Referenced by This Note

Awaiting Attention (Personal Identity)	Baker	Baker - Persons and Bodies - Precis	Baker - Persons in the Material World	Baker - The Coherence Of the Idea of Material Constitution
Baker - The Constitution View of Human Persons	Baker - The Very Idea of Constitution	Change	Constitution	Constitution View
Crane - Interaction Between Mind and Body	Endurantism	Exdurantism	Existence	Forensic Property
Kurtz - Persistence (Introduction)	McDowell - Values and Secondary Qualities	Moreland & Rae - Body & Soul: Human Persons as Substances or Property-Things	Note Links Explanation	Olson - What Are We? The Question
Ontological Argument	Perdurantism	Persistence	PID Note, Book & Paper Usage	Plug Note Apologia
Process Metaphysics	Snowdon - The Self and Personal Identity	Substance	Temporary Intrinsics	Universals
What are We?	Works Read - Explanation

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Summary of Notes Citing This Note

Baker	Baker - Materialism with a Human Face	Baker - Persons in the Material World, 2, 3	Baker - Review - Olson - What Are We?	Brain Transplants
Bundle Theories	Change	Constitution View	Continuity	Embryo
Essentialism, 2	Exdurantism, 2	First-Person Perspective	Fusion	Genetics
Holes & Smiles, 2	Immortality	Locke	Metaphysics	Natural Kinds
Olson - What Are We? The Question	Only 'X' and 'Y' Principle	Ontology	Partial Identity	Phase Sortals
PID Note, Book & Paper Usage, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8	Snowdon - The Self and Personal Identity	Sortals	Temporary Intrinsics, 2, 3	Thesis - Chapter 01 (Introduction)
Thesis - Chapter 02 (What are We?)	Thesis - Chapter 04 (Basic Metaphysical Issues), 2, 3, 4, 5	Thesis - Chapter 05 (Persistence and Time), 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12	Thesis - Chapter 06 (Animalism and Arguments for It)	Thesis - Chapter 07 (The Constitution View and Arguments for It), 2, 3, 4, 5
Thesis - Chapter 08 (Arguments against Animalism), 2	Thesis - Chapter 09 (Arguments against the Constitution View), 2	Thesis - Chapter 10 (Thought Experiments), 2	Thesis - Chapter 11 (Resurrection)	Thesis - Current Stance
Thesis - Personal Identity, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30	Thisness (Haecceity)	Universals	Website Generator Documentation - Functors, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6	Zygote

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Authors, Books & Papers Citing this Note

Author	Title	Medium	Extra Links	Read?
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Materialism with a Human Face	Paper		Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Persons in the Material World	Paper	2, 3	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Review of 'What Are We? A Study in Personal Ontology' by Eric T. Olson	Paper		Yes
Clark (Andy) & Kuhn (Robert Lawrence)	Aeon: Video - Andy Clark - Virtual immortality	Paper		Yes
Crull (Elise)	You thought quantum mechanics was weird: check out entangled time	Paper		Yes
Francione (Gary)	N/A	Author
Kazez (Jean)	The Philosophical Parent: Asking the Hard Questions About Having and Raising Children	Paper		Yes
Markosian (Ned)	Identifying the Problem of Personal Identity	Paper
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? The Question	Paper		Yes
Papineau (David)	Introducing Consciousness	Paper		Yes
Snowdon (Paul)	The Self and Personal Identity	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Baker	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Brain Transplants	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Bundle Theories	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Change	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 01 (Introduction)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 02 (What Are We?)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 04 (Basic Metaphysical Issues)	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 05 (Persistence and Time)	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 06 (Animalism and Arguments for It)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 07 (The Constitution View and Arguments for It)	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 08 (Arguments against Animalism)	Paper	2	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 09 (Arguments against the Constitution View)	Paper	2	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 10 (Thought Experiments)	Paper	2	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 11 (Resurrection)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Constitution View	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Continuity	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Current Position	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Embryo	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Essentialism	Paper	2	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Exdurantism	Paper	2	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - First-Person Perspective	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Fusion	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Genetics	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Holes & Smiles	Paper	2	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Immortality	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Locke	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Metaphysics	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Natural Kinds	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Only 'X' and 'Y' Principle	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Ontology	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Partial Identity	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Personal Identity	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Phase Sortals	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Sortals	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Temporary Intrinsics	Paper	2, 3	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Thisness (Haecceity)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Universals	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Zygote	Paper		Yes

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References & Reading List

Author	Title	Medium	Source	Read?
Abelson (Raziel)	Not Necessarily	Paper - Cited	The Philosophical Review, Vol. 70, No. 1 (Jan., 1961), pp. 67-84	Yes
Armstrong (David)	In Conclusion (Universals and Scientific Realism Vol. 2: A Theory of Universals)	Paper - Cited	Armstrong - Universals and Scientific Realism (Vol. 2: A Theory of Universals), 1978	Yes
Armstrong (David)	Properties	Paper - Cited	Armstrong - Universals and Scientific Realism (Vol. 2: A Theory of Universals), 1978, Chapter 18	No
Armstrong (David)	Reply to D.H. Mellor's 'Properties and Predicates'	Paper - By Subtopic	Bacon, Campbell & Reinhardt - Ontology, Causality and Mind	No
Armstrong (David)	Universals and Scientific Realism (Vol. 2: A Theory of Universals)	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	4%
Averill (Edward)	Introduction to Secondary Qualities	Paper - By Subtopic	Hales (Steven D.), Ed. - Metaphysics: Contemporary Readings	No
Azzouni (Jody)	Deflating Existential Consequence: A Case for Nominalism	Book - Referenced	Azzouni (Jody) - Deflating Existential Consequence: A Case for Nominalism	2%
Bacon (John), Campbell (Keith) & Reinhardt (Lloyd)	Ontology, Causality and Mind	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Bacon (John), Campbell (Keith) & Reinhardt (Lloyd) - Ontology, Causality and Mind	4%
Browning (Douglas)	Sameness Through Change and the Coincidence of Properties	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. 49, No. 1, Sep., 1988, pp. 103-121	No
Chalmers (David)	Strong and Weak Emergence	Paper - By Subtopic	P. Clayton and P. Davies, eds. - The Re-emergence of Emergence (Oxford University Press, 2006)	25%
Church (Alonzo)	On Carnap's Analysis of Statements of Assertion and Belief	Paper - By Subtopic	Analysis, Vol. 10, No. 5 (Apr., 1950), pp. 97-99	No
Denby (David)	The Distinction between Intrinsic and Extrinsic Properties	Paper - By Subtopic	Mind, 115, Number 457, January 2006, pp. 1-17(17)	Yes
Dupre (John)	Metaphysics of metamorphosis	Paper - Cited	Aeon, 30 November, 2017	Yes
Egan (Andy)	Second-Order Predication and the Metaphysics of Properties	Paper - By Subtopic	Jackson - Lewisian Themes: The Philosophy of David K. Lewis, Chapter 5	No
Funkhouser (Eric)	Metaphysics, Spring 2014	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Funkhouser (Eric) - Metaphysics, Spring 2014	94%
Funkhouser (Eric)	Notes on Fine, 'Essence and Modality'	Paper - By Subtopic	Funkhouser (Eric) - Metaphysics, Spring 2014	No
Geach (Peter)	The Perils of Pauline	Paper - By Subtopic	The Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 23, No. 2 (Dec., 1969), pp. 287-300	No
Godman (Marion), Mallozzi (Antonella) & Papineau (David)	Essential Properties Are Super-Explanatory: Taming Metaphysical Modality	Paper - By Subtopic	Journal of the American Philosophical Association (2020) pp. 316-334	6%
Grossmann (Reinhardt)	Russell's Paradox and Complex Properties	Paper - By Subtopic	Noûs, Vol. 6, No. 2 (May, 1972), pp. 153-164	No
Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul)	Aeon: C-F	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	51%
Hales (Steven D.), Ed.	Metaphysics: Contemporary Readings	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Hales (Steven D.), Ed. - Metaphysics: Contemporary Readings	6%
Hazlett (Allan)	New Waves in Metaphysics	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Hazlett (Allan) - New Waves in Metaphysics	10%
Heintz (John)	Property Existence and Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	Journal of Philosophy 70, No. 19, Nov. 8, 1973, pp. 734-743	No
Hirsch (Eli)	Essence and Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	Munitz - Identity and Individuation, 1971, pp. 31-50	No
Jackson (Frank) & Priest (Graham), Eds.	Lewisian Themes: The Philosophy of David K. Lewis	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Jackson (Frank) & Priest (Graham), Eds. - Lewisian Themes: The Philosophy of David K. Lewis	5%
Jubien (Michael)	Ontology, Modality, and the Fallacy of Reference	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Jubien (Michael) - Ontology, Modality, and the Fallacy of Reference	No
Jubien (Michael)	Some Properties of Things	Paper - By Subtopic	Jubien - Ontology, Modality, and the Fallacy of Reference, 1993, Chapter 3	No
Koslicki (Kathrin)	Questions of Ontology	Paper - By Subtopic	Ontology After Carnap, edited by Stephan Blatti and Sandra Lapointe, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 2016, pp. 220-241	17%
Laurence (Stephen) & Macdonald (Cynthia), Eds.	Contemporary Readings in the Foundations of Metaphysics	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Laurence (Stephen) & Macdonald (Cynthia), Eds. - Contemporary Readings in the Foundations of Metaphysics	0%
Levinson (Jerrold)	Why There Are No Tropes	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy - 81/318 (October 2006)	No
MacBride (Fraser)	Relations	Paper - By Subtopic	Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy. First published Tue Feb 9, 2016; substantive revision Wed Oct 28, 2020	12%
Malcolm (Norman)	Anselm's Ontological Arguments	Paper - Cited	Van Inwagen & Zimmerman - Metaphysics: The Big Questions, 1998	Yes
Marshall (Dan) & Weatherson (Brian)	Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Properties	Paper - By Subtopic	Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, 2002-18	8%
McGinn (Colin)	Logical Properties	Book - Cited	McGinn (Colin) - Logical Properties	11%
McGinn (Colin)	Predication	Paper - By Subtopic	McGinn - Logical Properties, 2000, Chapter 3	No
Mellor (D.H.)	Properties and Predicates	Paper - By Subtopic	Mellor & Oliver - Properties - Oxford Readings	No
Mellor (D.H.) & Oliver (Alex), Eds.	Properties: Oxford Readings in Philosophy	Book - By Subtopic	Mellor (D.H.) & Oliver (Alex), Eds. - Properties: Oxford Readings in Philosophy	0%
Moore (G.E.), Stout (G.F.) & Hicks (G. Dawes)	Symposium: Are the Characteristics of Particular Things Universal or Particular?	Paper - By Subtopic	Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volumes, Vol. 3, Relativity, Logic, and Mysticism (1923), pp. 95-128	2%
Ney (Alyssa)	Are There Fundamental Intrinsic Properties?	Paper - By Subtopic	Hazlett (Allan) - New Waves in Metaphysics, Chapter 11	17%
O'Hear (Anthony), Ed.	Philosophy - 81/318 (October 2006)	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	O'Hear (Anthony), Ed. - Philosophy - 81/318 (October 2006)	2%
Olson (Eric)	Properties as parts of ordinary objects	Paper - By Subtopic	Keller JA (Ed.), Being, Freedom, and Method: Themes from the Philosophy of Peter van Inwagen (pp. 62-79). Oxford University Press. 2017	6%
Parsons (Josh)	Distributional Properties	Paper - By Subtopic	Jackson - Lewisian Themes: The Philosophy of David K. Lewis, Chapter 14	No
Parsons (Terence)	Essentialism and Quantified Modal Logic	Paper - By Subtopic	The Philosophical Review, Vol. 78, No. 1 (Jan., 1969), pp. 35-52	No
Parsons (Terence)	Grades of Essentialism in Quantified Modal Logic	Paper - By Subtopic	Noûs, Vol. 1, No. 2 (May, 1967), pp. 181-191	No
Sattig (Thomas)	Temporal Parts and Complex Predicates	Paper - By Subtopic	Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, New Series, Vol. 102 (2002), pp. 329-336	11%
Schaffer (Jonathan)	The Individuation Of Tropes	Paper - By Subtopic	Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 79.2, pp. 247-257, June 2001	No
Shoemaker (Sydney)	Persistence and Properties	Paper - By Subtopic	Journal of the American Philosophical Association (2015) pp. 433-448	7%
Simons (Peter)	Particulars in Particular Clothing: Three Trope Theories of Substance	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. 54, No. 3 (Sep., 1994), pp. 553-575	No
Sosa (Ernest) & Kim (Jaegwon), Eds.	Epistemology - An Anthology	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Sosa (Ernest) & Kim (Jaegwon), Eds. - Epistemology - An Anthology	9%
Sprigge (Timothy L.S.)	Internal and External Properties	Paper - By Subtopic	Mind 71.282, Apr. 1962, pp. 197-212	No
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Properties	Paper - By Subtopic		Yes
Trettin (Kathe)	New Literature on Tropes	Paper - By Subtopic	Metaphysica, 2004	No
Van Cleve (James)	Three Versions of the Bundle Theory	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Studies, Vol. 47, No. 1 (Jan., 1985), pp. 95-107	No
Van Inwagen (Peter) & Zimmerman (Dean)	Metaphysics: The Big Questions	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	17%
Williams (Neil Edward)	The ungrounded argument is unfounded: a response to Mumford	Paper - By Subtopic	Synthese, Vol. 170, No. 1 (Sep., 2009), pp. 7-19	8%

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