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(2015) Morphogenesis and individuation, Dordrecht, Springer.

On substances and causes again

Simondon's philosophy of individuation and the critique of the metaphysical roots of determinism

Andrea Bardin

pp. 3-31

In his main work, L"individuation à la lumière des notions de forme et d"information, Gilbert Simondon displayed a theory of the discontinuous processes of individuation (or "ontogenesis") from which structures emerge. Linking the concepts of singularity and historicity through the paradigmatic assumption of quantum physics, Simondon attacked both determinism and indeterminism by way of an original critique—neither empiricist nor idealistic—of the concepts of substance and cause.

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-05101-7_1

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Bardin, A. (2015)., On substances and causes again: Simondon's philosophy of individuation and the critique of the metaphysical roots of determinism, in A. Sarti, F. Montanari & F. Galofaro (eds.), Morphogenesis and individuation, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 3-31.

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