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.
