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Ideas of Robert Merrihew Adams, by Text

[American, fl. 1979, At the University of California, Los Angeles.]

1979 Primitive Thisness and Primitive Identity
p.64 16451 Adams says anti-haecceitism reduces all thisness to suchness [Stalnaker]
p.152 11901 Haecceitism may or may not involve some logical connection to essence [Mackie,P]
p.212 11964 Possible worlds are world-stories, maximal descriptions of whole non-existent worlds [Molnar]
Intro p.172 14507 Are possible worlds just qualities, or do they include primitive identities as well?
1 p.172 14508 A 'thisness' is a thing's property of being identical with itself (not the possession of self-identity)
1 p.172 12031 Essences are taken to be qualitative properties
2 p.174 12032 Direct reference is by proper names, or indexicals, or referential uses of descriptions
3 p.176 12034 If the universe was cyclical, totally indiscernible events might occur from time to time
3 p.176 14510 Two events might be indiscernible yet distinct, if there was a universe cyclical in time
3 p.177 16455 Black's two globes might be one globe in highly curved space
6 p.181 14511 There are cases where mere qualities would not ensure an intrinsic identity
6 p.182 14512 Moderate Haecceitism says transworld identities are primitive, but connected to qualities
1981 Actualism and Thisness
p.97 16463 Adams says actual things have haecceities, but not things that only might exist [Stalnaker]