J. A. Cover

Substance and Individuation in Leibniz (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a sustained re-evaluation of the most central and perplexing themes of Leibniz's metaphysics. In contrast to traditional assessments that view the metaphysics in terms of its place among post-Cartesian theories of the world, Jan Cover and John O'Leary-Hawthorne examine the question of how the scholastic themes which were Leibniz's inheritance figure - and are refigured - in his mature account of substance and individuation. From this emerges a sometimes surprising assessment of Leibniz's views on modality, the Identity of Indiscernibles, form as an internal law, and the complete-concept doctrine. As a rigorous philosophical treatment of a still-influential mediary between scholastic and modern metaphysics, this study will be of interest to historians of philosophy and contemporary metaphysicians alike.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 1999
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511034985
• Artikelnr.: 38210948

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Leibniz and the problem of individuation: the historical and philosophical context
2. Relations
3. Essentialism
4. Haecceitism and anti-haecceitism
5. Sufficient reason and the identity of Indiscernibles
6. Law-of-the-series, identity and change
7. The threat of one substance
Bibliography
Index.