EAN: 9783110611700

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The book is a systematic study of the issue of self-individuation in the scholastic debate on principles of individuation (principia individuationis). The point of departure is a general formulation of the problem of individuation acceptable for all the participants of the scholastic debate: a principle of individuation of x is what makes x individual (in various possible senses of 'making something individual'). The book argues against a prima facie plausible view that everything that is individual is individual by itself and not by anything distinct from it (Strong Self-Individuation Thesis). The keynote topic of the book is a detailed analysis of the two competing ways of rejecting the Strong Self-Individuation Thesis: the Scotistic and the Thomistic one. The book defends the latter one discussing a number of issues concerning substantial and accidental forms essences properties instantiation the Thomistic notion of materia signata Frege's Begriff-Gegenstand distinction and Geach's form-function analogy developed in his writings on Aquinas. In the context of both the scholastic and contemporary metaphysics the book offers a framework for dealing with issues of individuality and defends a Thomistic theory of individuation.

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