Substance and individuation in Leibniz / J.A. Cover, John O'Leary-Hawthorne.

By:

Cover, J. A. (Jan A.), 1958-

Contributor(s):

Hawthorne, John (John P.)

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.Description: 1 online resource (x, 307 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0511009100
9780511009105
0521593948
9780521593946
0511034989
9780511034985
9780511487149
0511487142
9780521073035
0521073030

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Substance and individuation in Leibniz.DDC classification:

110/.92 21

LOC classification:

B2599.M7 C68 1999eb

Other classification:

08.24

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-298) and index.

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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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