Substance and Individuation in Leibniz

Klappentext A sustained re-evaluation of the most central and perplexing themes of Leibniz's metaphysics. Zusammenfassung This book offers a sustained re-evaluation of the most central and perplexing themes of Leibniz's metaphysics. 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

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• Authors: &apos, J. A. Cover, Jan A. Hawthorne Cover, John Hawthorne, LEARY, John O'Leary-Hawthorne
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.09.1999
• EAN: 9780521593946
• ISBN: 978-0-521-59394-6
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works