{"id":2329,"date":"2026-05-18T13:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T12:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/?p=2329"},"modified":"2026-05-18T13:59:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T12:59:40","slug":"seminar-series-in-analytic-philosophy-2025-26-session-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/seminar-series-in-analytic-philosophy-2025-26-session-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Seminar Series in Analytic Philosophy 2025-26: Session 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>X Is Essentially F<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anna Marmodoro (Saint Louis University)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">22 May 2026, 16:00 (Lisbon Time \u2013 WET)<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sala Mattos Rom\u00e3o [C201.J] (Departamento de Filosofia)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Abstract:\u00a0<\/strong>In this paper I argue against the view that essences are related to the things that have them, as properties that things cannot lose without losing their identity. If things have their essences, regresses develop and unravel the ontology. Both Modal Essentialism and Kit Fine\u2019s Definitional Essentialism are open to such regresses. By contrast, I advocate a type of essentialism according to which things do not have essences, and are not qualified by their essences, but rather, they are constituted of their essences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>X Is Essentially F Anna Marmodoro (Saint Louis University) &nbsp; 22 May 2026, 16:00 (Lisbon Time \u2013 WET) Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Rom\u00e3o [C201.J] (Departamento de Filosofia) &nbsp; Abstract:\u00a0In this paper I argue against the view that essences are related to the things that have them, as properties that things cannot lose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2333,"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329\/revisions\/2333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}