The Science of the Individual: Leibniz's Ontology of Individual Substance

• Main Author: Bella, Stefano Di (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bencivenga, Ermanno (Editor), Berthold-Bond, Daniel (Editor), Earle, William James (Editor), Ferguson, Ann (Editor), Lloyd, David (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.
• Series: Topoi Library, 6
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Metaphysics.; Modern philosophy.; Ontology.; Philosophy, general.; Modern Philosophy.; History of Philosophy.

In his well-known Discourse on Metaphysics, Leibniz puts individual substance at the basis of metaphysical building. In so doing, he connects himself to a venerable tradition. His theory of individual concept, however, breaks with another idea of the same tradition, that no account of the individual...