Substance and Individuation in Leibniz

ISBN-13: 9780521593946 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 320 str.

J. A. Cover; John O'Leary-Hawthorne; John O'Leary-Hawthorne

Opis

This book offers a sustained reevaluation 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 that were Leibniz's inheritance figure--and are refigured--in his mature account of substance and individuation. As a rigorous philosophical treatment of a still-influential mediary between scholastic and modern metaphysics, their study will be of interest to historians of philosophy and modern metaphysicians alike.

Recenzje

Review of the hardback: 'J. A. Cover and John Hawthorne have written an important, and exciting, book … it is a stunning vindication of the value that 'philosophical' history of philosophy can have.' Mind

Spis treści

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.