Individuality : an essay on the foundations of metaphysics /
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| Author / Creator: | Gracia, Jorge J. E. |
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| Imprint: | Albany : State University of New York Press, c1988. |
| Description: | xx, 315 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | SUNY series in philosophy |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/911346 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Prolegomena: Nomenclature and Problems
- Nomenclature
- Problems
- Intension of 'Individuality'
- Extension of 'Individuality'
- Ontological Status of Individuality
- Principle of Individuation
- Discernibility of Individuals
- Reference to Individuals
- Concluding Remarks
- 1. Intension of 'Individuality'
- What Individuality Is Not
- Individuality and Indivisibility
- Individuality and Distinction
- Individuality and Division
- Individuality and Identity
- Individuality and Impredicability
- Individuality as Noninstantiability
- 2. Extension of 'Individuality'
- Realism: Nothing that Exists Is Individual
- Transcendental Realism
- Immanent Realism
- Appeal and Weakness of Realism
- Nominalism: Everything that Exists Is Individual
- Essential Nominalism
- Derivative Nominalism
- Appeal and Weakness of Nominalism
- Eclecticism: Some Things that Exist Are Individual and Some Are Not
- Bare Particular View
- Characterized Particular View
- Bundle View
- Appeal and Weakness of Eclecticism
- Extension of 'Individuality'
- Preliminary Clarifications
- To What Things Do Individuality and Universality Extend?
- Do Individuals and Universals Exist?
- Summary
- 3. Ontological Status of Individuality
- Medieval Controversy
- Contemporary Reformulation
- Wrong Ontological Interpretations
- Individuality as Mode
- 4. Principle of Individuation
- Individuation of Substances
- Bundle Theory of Individuation
- Accidental Theories of Individuation
- Essential Theories of Individuation
- Extrinsic Theories of Individuation
- Individuation of Features
- Substance Theory of the Individuation of Features
- Feature Theory of the Individuation of Features
- Individuation of Other Entries
- Principle of Individuation
- The Problem and the Alternatives Revisited
- The Existential Theory of Individuation
- 5. Discernibility of Individuals
- Discernibility of Individual Substances
- Spatio-Temporal Theory of Individual Substance Discernibility
- Bundle Theory of Individual Substance Discernibility
- Sui Generis Theory of Individual Substance Discernibility
- Discernibility of Features
- Discernibility of Features through Substance
- Discernibility of Features through Features
- Principle of Identity of Indiscernibles
- 6. Reference to Individuals: Proper Names, Definite Descriptions, and Indexicals
- Proper Names
- Reference View of Proper Names
- Descriptivist View of Proper Names
- Causal View of Proper Names
- Threefold View of Proper Names
- Definite Descriptions
- Indexicals
- Assessment: A Metaphysics of Individuality
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index of Authors
- Index of Subjects