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Ideas of Michael Burke, by Text
[Australian, fl. 1992, Lecturer at Victoria University, Australia.]
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1994
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Dion and Theon: an essentialist solution
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p.15
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16072
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'The rock' either refers to an object, or to a collection of parts, or to some stuff [Wasserman]
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p.15
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16071
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Sculpting a lump of clay destroys one object, and replaces it with another one [Wasserman]
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p.152
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16234
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Burke says when two object coincide, one of them is destroyed in the process [Hawley]
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p.152
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16235
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Persistence conditions cannot contradict, so there must be a 'dominant sortal' [Hawley]
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p.161
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14750
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Two entities can coincide as one, but only one of them (the dominant sortal) fixes persistence conditions [Sider]
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p.162
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14751
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Tib goes out of existence when the tail is lost, because Tib was never the 'cat' [Sider]
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p.164
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14753
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The 'dominant' of two coinciding sortals is the one that entails the widest range of properties [Sider]
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p.179
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13278
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Maybe the clay becomes a different lump when it becomes a statue [Koslicki]
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