Since its publication in 1959, Individuals has become a modern philosophical classic. Bold in scope and ambition, it continues to influence debates in metaphysi

An argument that pronouns, definite descriptions, and proper names have a common syntax and semantics, that of definite descriptions as construed in the traditi

This monograph investigates the temporal properties of those predicates referring to individuals – the so-called individual-level (IL) predicates – in contras

This book shows how the institutional framework of a society emerges and how markets within institutions work.