Substance and Individuation in Leibniz

J. A. Cover,John O'Leary-Hawthorne (Purdue University, Indiana)

Substance and Individuation in Leibniz
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
9 September 1999
Pages
320
ISBN
9780521593946

Substance and Individuation in Leibniz

J. A. Cover,John O'Leary-Hawthorne (Purdue University, Indiana)

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 fresh and 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, their study will be of interest to historians of philosophy and contemporary metaphysicians alike.

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