<strong>Real Essentialism</strong> presents a comprehensive defence of neoAristotelianessentialism. Do objects have essences? Must they be the kinds of things t... » 

Real Essentialism presents a comprehensive defence of neoAristotelianessentialism. Do objects have essences? Must they be the kinds of things theyare in spite of the changes they undergo? Can we know what things are reallylike a can we define and classify reality? Many if not most philosophersdoubt this influenced by centuries of empiricism and by the antiessentialismof Wittgenstein Quine Popper and other thinkers. Real Essentialismreinvigorates the tradition of realist essentialist metaphysics defending thereality and knowability of essence the possibility of objective immutabledefinition and its relevance to contemporary scientific and metaphysicalissues such as whether essence transcends physics and chemistry the essence oflife the nature of biological species and the nature of the person. «