Singleness : : Self-Individuation and Its Rejection in the Scholastic Debate on Principles of Individuation / / Michal Glowala.
The book is a systematic study of the issue of self-individuation in the scholastic debate on principles of individuation (principia individuationis). The point of departure is a general formulation of the problem of individuation acceptable for all the participants of the scholastic debate: a princ...
Saved in:
Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2016 Part 1 |
---|---|
VerfasserIn: | |
Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2016] ©2016 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis ,
70 |
Online Access: | |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (IX, 163 p.) |
Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
Other title: | Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Entitas. Nominalism and Self-Individuation -- 3. Haecceitas. The Scotistic Rejection of the Strong Self-Individuation Thesis -- 4. Forms and Self-Individuation -- 5. Subjects as Principles of the Individuation of Their Accidents -- 6. Matter: Noninstantiability and Self-Individuation -- 7. Quantity and Self-Individuation -- 8. Actual Existence and Individuality -- 9. Concluding Remarks: The Thomistic Theory of Individuation -- Bibliography -- Index |
---|---|
Summary: | The book is a systematic study of the issue of self-individuation in the scholastic debate on principles of individuation (principia individuationis). The point of departure is a general formulation of the problem of individuation acceptable for all the participants of the scholastic debate: a principle of individuation of x is what makes x individual (in various possible senses of ‘making something individual’). The book argues against a prima facie plausible view that everything that is individual is individual by itself and not by anything distinct from it (Strong Self-Individuation Thesis). The keynote topic of the book is a detailed analysis of the two competing ways of rejecting the Strong Self-Individuation Thesis: the Scotistic and the Thomistic one. The book defends the latter one, discussing a number of issues concerning substantial and accidental forms, essences, properties, instantiation, the Thomistic notion of materia signata, Frege’s Begriff-Gegenstand distinction, and Geach’s form-function analogy developed in his writings on Aquinas. In the context of both the scholastic and contemporary metaphysics, the book offers a framework for dealing with issues of individuality and defends a Thomistic theory of individuation. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9783110463880 9783110762501 9783110701005 9783110514827 9783110485103 9783110485301 |
ISSN: | 2198-2066 ; |
DOI: | 10.1515/9783110463880 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Michal Glowala. |