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Cover J. A (Jan A.), <1958-> |
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Substance and individuation in Leibniz / / J.A. Cover, John O'Leary-Hawthorne [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1999 |
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1-107-11455-1 |
0-511-00910-0 |
1-280-43216-0 |
0-511-17268-0 |
0-511-15153-5 |
0-511-32483-9 |
0-511-48714-2 |
0-511-05022-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (x, 307 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-298) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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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 |
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