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  title info:
    title: Possibility, Agency, and Individuality in Leibniz’s Metaphysics
  name:
    name part: Nachtomy, Ohad.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2007
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XII, 272 p. online resource.
  abstract: This work presents Leibniz’s subtle approach to possibility and explores some of its consequential repercussions in his metaphysics. Ohad Nachtomy presents Leibniz’s approach to possibility by exposing his early suppositions, arguing that he held a combinatorial conception of possibility. He considers the transition from possibility to actuality through the notion of agency; the role divine agency plays in actualization; moral agency and human freedom of action and the relation between agency and necessity in comparison to Spinoza. Nachtomy analyzes Leibniz’s notion of nested, organic individuals and their peculiar unity, in distinction from his notion of aggregates. Nachtomy suggests that Leibniz defined possible individuals through combinatorial rules that generate unique and maximally consistent structures of predicates in God’s understanding and that such rules may be viewed as programs for action. He uses this definition to clarify Leibniz’s notions of individuation, relations and his distinction between individual substances and aggregates as well as the notion of organic individuals, which have a nested structure to infinity. Nachtomy concludes that Leibniz’s definition of a possible individual as a program of action helps clarifying the unity and simplicity of nested individuals. The book thus reveals a thread that runs through Leibniz’s metaphysics: from his logical notion of possible individuals to his notion of actual, nested ones.
  table of contents: Leibniz’s Combinatorial Approach to Possibility -- Possible Individuals -- The Individual’s Place in Logical Space -- Individuals, Worlds and Relations -- Possibility and Actuality -- Agency and Freedom -- Agency and Necessity -- Aggregates -- Nested Individuals -- Possibility and Individuality.
  note: by Ohad Nachtomy.
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Metaphysics
  subject:
    topic: Modern philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: History of Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Modern Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Metaphysics
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy, general
  classification: B108-5802
  classification: 180-190
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      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: The New Synthese Historical Library, Texts and Studies in the History of Philosophy ; 61
  identifier: 9781402052453
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5245-3
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204190724.0
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