Substance and Individuation in Leibniz
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Substance and Individuation in Leibniz

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Substance and Individuation in Leibniz

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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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Yes, you can access Substance and Individuation in Leibniz by J. A. Cover,John O'Leary-Hawthorne in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Philosophy & Modern Philosophy. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1999
Print ISBN
9780521593946
eBook ISBN
9780511034985
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Modern Philosophy

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction
  9. CHAPTER 1 Leibniz and the problem of individuation: the historical and philosophical context
  10. CHAPTER 2 Relations
  11. CHAPTER 3 Essentialism
  12. CHAPTER 4 Haecceitism and anti-haecceitism
  13. CHAPTER 5 Sufficient reason and the identity of indiscernibles
  14. CHAPTER 6 Law-of-the-series, identity, and change
  15. CHAPTER 7 The threat of one substance
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index