Haecceity - An Ontological Essay (Hardcover, 1993 ed.)

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.

General

Imprint:	Springer
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Philosophical Studies Series, 57
Release date:	August 1993
First published:	1993
Authors:	G. S. Rosenkrantz
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	256
Edition:	1993 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-7923-2438-6
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Metaphysics & ontology Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Metaphysics & ontology
LSN:	0-7923-2438-2
Barcode:	9780792324386

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