Nature and necessity in Spinoza's philosophy /
Spinoza's guiding commitment to the thesis that nothing exists or occurs outside of the scope of nature and its necessary laws makes him one of the great seventeenth-century exemplars of both philosophical naturalism and explanatory rationalism. Nature and Necessity in Spinoza's Philosophy...
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Oxford University Press,
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Overview. 1. Spinoza's Ethics: The Metaphysics of Blessedness (2003)
- Section I: Necessity and God's Nature; 2. Spinoza's "Ontological" Argument (1979)
- Postscript: Arguments for God's Existence Revisited
- 3. Ethics Ip5: Shared Attributes and the Basis of Spinoza's Monism (1990)
- Postscript: Shared Attributes and Monism Revisited
- 4. Spinoza's Necessitarianism (1991)
- Postscript: Necessitarianism Revisited
- Section II: Necessity, Truth, and Knowledge 5. Truth and Ideas of Imagination in the Tractatus de Intellectus Emendatione (1986)6. Truth, Method, and Correspondence in Spinoza and Leibniz (1990)
- 7. Spinoza's Theory of Scientia Intuitiva (2009)
- Section III: Nature as Necessarily Extended and Thinking
- 8. Descartes, Spinoza, and Locke on Extended Thinking Beings (2009)
- 9. Spinoza on the Essence of the Human Body and the Part of the Mind That Is Eternal (2009)
- 10. The Indiscernibility of Identicals and the Transitivity of Identity in Spinoza's Logic of the Attributes (2017)
- Section IV: Teleology and Necessarily Striving Natures. 5. Truth and Ideas of Imagination in the Tractatus de Intellectus Emendatione (1986)
- 6. Truth, Method, and Correspondence in Spinoza and Leibniz (1990)
- 7. Spinoza's Theory of Scientia Intuitiva (2009)
- Section III: Nature as Necessarily Extended and Thinking
- 8. Descartes, Spinoza, and Locke on Extended Thinking Beings (2009)
- 9. Spinoza on the Essence of the Human Body and the Part of the Mind That Is Eternal (2009)
- 10. The Indiscernibility of Identicals and the Transitivity of Identity in Spinoza's Logic of the Attributes (2017)
- Section IV: Teleology and Necessarily Striving Natures
- 11. Spinoza's Theory of Metaphysical Individuation (1994)12. Teleology in Spinoza and Early Modern Rationalism (1999)
- 13. Spinoza's Conatus Argument (2002)
- Section V: Naturalistic Representation and Consciousness
- 14. Representation and Consciousness in Spinoza's Naturalistic Theory of the Imagination (2008)
- Postscript: Consciousness Revisited
- 15. Representation, Misrepresentation, and Error in Spinoza's Philosophy of Mind (2013)
- Section VI: Naturalistic Ethics
- 16. "A Free Man Always Acts Honestly, Not Deceptively": Freedom and the Good in Spinoza's Ethics (1990) 17. Spinoza's Ethical Theory (1996)18. "Promising" Ideas: Hobbes and Contract in Spinoza's Political Philosophy (2010)
- Index