Haecceity

An Ontological Essay

G.S. Rosenkrantz (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

1993
Springer (Verlag)
978-0-7923-2438-6 (ISBN)

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Many contemporary philosophers are interested in the scotistic notion of haecceity or `thisness' because it is relevant to important problems concerning identity and individuation, reference, modality, and propositional attitudes. Haecceity is the only book-length work devoted to this topic. The author develops a novel defense of Platonism, arguing, first, that abstracta - nonqualitative haecceities - are needed to explain concreta's being diverse at a time; and second, that unexemplified haecceities are then required to accommodate the full range of cases in which there are possible worlds containing individuals not present in the actual world. In the cognitive area, an original epistemic argument is presented which implies that certain haecceities can be grasped by a person: his own, those of certain of his mental states, and those of various abstracta, but not those of external things. It is argued that in consequence there is a clear sense in which one is directly acquainted with the former entities, but not with external things.

1 — Introductory Preliminaires.- 2 — The Problem of Individuation.- 3 — Haecceities and Nonexistent Possible Individuals.- 4 — Singular Reference and Unexemplified Haecceities.- 5 — Acquaintance.- Index of Names.- Index of Subjects.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.8.1993
Reihe/Serie	Philosophical Studies Series ; 57
Zusatzinfo	XV, 256 p.
Verlagsort	Dordrecht
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
ISBN-10	0-7923-2438-2 / 0792324382
ISBN-13	978-0-7923-2438-6 / 9780792324386
Zustand	Neuware