Individuation and Identity in Early Modern Philosophy: Descartes to Kant

by Kenneth F. Barber, Jorge J.E. Gracia, Kenneth F. Barber

Book Overview

Philosophy in the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries has traditionally been characterized as being primarily concerned with epistemological issues. This book is not intended to overturn this characterization but rather to balance it through an examination of equally important metaphysical, or ontological, positions held, explicitly or implicitly, by philosophers in this period. Major philosophers whose views are discussed in this book include...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791419673
• ISBN13: 9780791419670
• Release Date: July 1994
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 275 Pages