Abstract
Ellis defends a theory which is of great interest and importance: scientific essentialism. Science seeks the essential properties of things in the world, and the necessary truths which follow from them, argues Ellis. The core doctrine of the Ellis theory, I take to be this:
Among the essential properties of many different natural kinds of things, we must include certain important dispositional properties.
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Bigelow, J. (1999). Scientific Ellisianism. In: Sankey, H. (eds) Causation and Laws of Nature. Australasian Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, vol 14. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9229-1_5
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