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

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

Glowala, Michal

Hardcover

Series: Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis, Book 70

Philosophy

ISBN10: 3110462958
ISBN13: 9783110462951
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: Jun 20 2016
Pages: 172
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

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.

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