Robert Michels (michels-r)
My research is mainly in metaphysics and philosophy of language and it usually engages in some form with modality or indeterminacy.
My contributions to Philosophie.ch
Bibliography
Hirèche, Salim, Linnemann, Niels, Michels, Robert and Vogt, Lisa. 2021. “The Strong Arm of the Law: a Unified Account of Necessary
and Contingent Laws of Nature.” Synthese
199(3-4): 10211–10252, doi:10.1007/s11229-021-03243-z.
Michels, Robert. 2012. “Soames’s Argument 1 Against Strong
Two-Dimensionalism.” Philosophical Studies
161(3): 403–420.
Michels, Robert. 2013a. “Metaphysical Modality and Essentiality.”
Th{\`e}se de doctorat, Genève: Département de
philosophie, Université de Genève.
Michels, Robert. 2013b. “Erratum to Michels (2012).”
Philosophical Studies 163(2): 575.
Michels, Robert. 2018a. “Essential Truths and Their Truth-Grounds.”
Ergo 5(30): 790–815.
Michels, Robert. 2018b. “Review of Wiggins (2016).”
Dialectica 72(2): 325–328.
Michels, Robert. 2019. “On How (Not) to Define Modality in Terms of
Essence.” Philosophical Studies 176: 1015–1033.
Michels, Robert. 2020. “The Formalization of Arguments: An Overview [introduction
to the special issue].” Dialectica 74(2).
Special issue “The Formalisation of Arguments,” guest
edited by Robert Michels, doi:10.48106/dial.v74.i2.01.
Further References
Wiggins, David. 2016. Continuants. Their Activity, their Being and their
Identity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198716624.001.0001.