What is it about?
This paper describes Denis Diderot's (1713-1784) explanation of the processes by which human bodies become real individuals and how the self, emerging from this individual body, preserves its identity over time.
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Why is it important?
Diderot's materialist's explanation of individuation processes and of identity of the self solves lots of problems that these two questions raise in other early modern philosophers' thoughts.
Perspectives
With this artice, I hope to convince that early materialist philosophies are interesting models to answer traditional metaphysical questions, and that Denis Diderot should be considered an important philosopher for the originality and the soundness of his philosophical approach.
Mitia Rioux-Beaulne
University of Ottawa
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This page is a summary of: Individuation et identité chez Diderot, Dialogue, September 2017, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s0012217317000713.
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