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Since its publication in 1959, Individuals has become a modern philosophical classic. Bold in scope and ambition, it continues to influence debates in metaphysics, philosophy of logic and language, and epistemology. Peter Strawson's most famous work, it sets out to describe nothing less than the basic subject matter of our thought. It contains Strawson's now famous argument for descriptive metaphysics and his repudiation of revisionary metaphysics, in which reality is something beyond the world of appearances.Throughout, Individuals advances some highly influential and controversial ideas,

Metaphysics. --- Individuation (Philosophy) --- Philosophy --- God --- Ontology --- Philosophy of mind --- Individuals (Philosophy) --- Individuation --- Particulars (Philosophy) --- Haecceity (Philosophy)

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This book supports a version of the trope-bundle view of individual substances matching also with a coherent account of change, individuation and individual essences. In particular, it is argued that qualitative individuation and qualitative individual essences can be tackled within the frames of a trope account. The adoption of a trope BT together with the individuation of tropes via the bearer substance might create the feeling of circularity since tropes and substances seem mutually to individuate each other. The novel solution to the problem developed here consists in showing that the individuation of concrete individual substances is independent, in crucial respects, from the fact that they are construed as bundles of tropes. Apart from metaphysician colleagues, the book is recommended for advanced students in analytic metaphysics.

Tropes (Philosophy) --- Substance (Philosophy) --- Individuation (Philosophy) --- Individuals (Philosophy) --- Individuation --- Particulars (Philosophy) --- Philosophy --- Haecceity (Philosophy) --- Matter --- Metaphysics --- Ontology --- Reality --- Abstract particulars (Philosophy) --- Particular properties (Philosophy) --- Particulars, Abstract (Philosophy) --- Properties, Particular (Philosophy)

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Individuality. --- Individuation (Philosophy) --- Individuals (Philosophy) --- Individuation --- Particulars (Philosophy) --- Philosophy --- Haecceity (Philosophy) --- Psychology --- Conformity --- Identity (Psychology) --- Likes and dislikes --- Personality --- Self

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According to Bertrand Russell, Nietzsche's only value is the flourishing of the exceptional individual. The well-being of ordinary people is, in itself, without value. Yet there are passages in Nietzsche that appear to regard the flourishing of the community as a whole alongside, perhaps even above, that of the exceptional individual. The ten essays that comprise this volume wrestle with the tension between individual and community in Nietzsche's writings. Some defend a reading close to Russell's. Others suggest that Nietzsche's highest value is the flourishing of the community as a whole and that exceptional individuals find their highest value only in promoting that flourishing. In viewing Nietzsche from the perspective of community, the essays also cast new light on other aspects of his philosophy, for instance, his ideal of scientific research and his philosophy of language.

Communities --- Individuation (Philosophy) --- Individuals (Philosophy) --- Individuation --- Particulars (Philosophy) --- Philosophy --- Haecceity (Philosophy) --- Philosophy. --- Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, --- Nietzsche, Friedrich --- Nietzsche, Friederich

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Einzelne Lebewesen fassen wir als Individuen auf, die über die Zeit hin Einheit besitzen und sich verändern können. Doch wie können sie Einheit besitzen, wenn sie sich verändern? Diese seit der Antike diskutierte ontologische Frage beantwortet Friedemann Buddensiek mit der These: Individuen sind Funktionsgefüge. Teil eines solchen - gegebenenfalls veränderlichen - Gefüges ist, was das Gefüge bildet und was durch Interaktion und Kooperation mit anderen Teilen zu dessen Selbständigkeit beiträgt. In der Kohärenz des Gefüges besteht die Einheit des Individuums. Die systematisch ausgerichtete Studie zeichnet sich durch ihre methodologische und empirische Absicherung ebenso aus wie durch die Zusammenführung von Diskussionen etwa zur Spezies, zur Vagheit, zur Reduktion, zur Emergenz und zur Funktion.

Individuation (Philosophy) --- Identity (Philosophical concept) --- Identity (Philosophical concept). --- Individuation (Philosophy). --- Individuals (Philosophy) --- Individuation --- Particulars (Philosophy) --- Philosophy --- Haecceity (Philosophy) --- Identity --- Comparison (Philosophy) --- Resemblance (Philosophy) --- Philosophy/metaphysics, ontology.