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Title

Individuation and identity in early modern philosophy : Descartes to Kant / Kenneth F. Barber and Jorge J.E. Gracia, editors.

Publication

Albany : State University of New York Press, [1994], ©1994.

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Additional Authors

• Barber, Kenneth F., 1940-
• Gracia, Jorge J. E.

Description

vi, 275 pages; 24 cm

Summary

• Philosophy in the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries has traditionally been chracterized as being primarily concerned with epistemological issues. This book is not intended to overturn this characterization but rather to balance it through an examination of equally important metaphysical, or ontological, positions held, explicitly or implicitly, by philosophers in this period.
• Major philosophers whose views are discussed in this book include Descartes, Malebranche, Spinoza, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Leibniz, Wolff, and Kant. In addition, the contributors of minor Cartesians, especially Regis and Desgabets, are analyzed in a separate chapter. Although the views of early modern philosophers on individuation and identity have been discussed before, these discussions have usually been treated as asides in a larger context.
• This book is the first to concentrate on the problems of individuation and identity in early modern philosophy and to trace their philosophical development through the period in a coherent way.

Subjects

• Philosophy, Modern
• Individuation (Philosophy) > History
• Identity (Psychology)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Kenneth Barber -- The Problem of Individuation among the Cartesians / Thomas M. Lennon -- Descartes and the Individuation of Physical Objects / Emily Grosholz -- Malebranche and the Individuation of Perceptual Objects / Daisie Radner -- Spinoza's Theory of Metaphysical Individuation / Don Garrett -- Locke on Identity: The Scheme of Simple and Compounded Things / Martha Brandt Bolton -- Berkeley, Individuation, and Physical Objects / Daniel Flage -- Substance and Self in Locke and Hume / Fred Wilson -- Leibniz's Principle of Individuation in His Disputatio metaphysica de principio individui of 1663 / Laurence B. McCullough -- Christian Wolff on Individuation / Jorge J. E. Gracia -- Substance and Phenomenal Substance: Kant's Individuation of Things in Themselves and Appearances / Michael Radner.

ISBN

• 0791419673 (alk. paper)
• 0791419681 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

93038028

OCLC

• 29182124
• ocm29182124

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries