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

• Autore: Cover J. A (Jan A.), <1958->
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1999
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 307 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 110/.92
• Soggetto topico: Metaphysics
• Persona (resp. second.): HawthorneJohn (John P.)
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-298) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Altri titoli varianti: Substance & Individuation in Leibniz
• Titolo autorizzato: Substance and individuation in Leibniz
• ISBN: 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
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910780074603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II