Substance and Individuation in Leibniz

by J.A. Cover and John O'Leary-Hawthorne

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521073030
• ISBN13: 9780521073035
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"