Singleness: Self-individuation and Its Rejection in the Scholastic Debate on Principles of Individuation - Couverture souple

Glowala, Michal

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3110611708 ISBN 13 : 9783110611700

Editeur : De Gruyter, 2018

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Michal Glowala, Wroclaw University, Poland.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: De Gruyter
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3110611708
• ISBN 13: 9783110611700
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 173
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Walter de Gruyter GmbH; productsafety@degruyterbrill.com; ; Genthiner Straße 13; Berlin; 10785; Allemagne