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Peeling potatoes or grinding lenses : Spinoza and young Wittgenstein converse on immanence and its logic / Aristides Baltas.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baltas, Aristeidēs.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677. Ethica.
- Spinoza, Benedictus de.
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951. Tractatus logico-philosophicus.
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig.
- Immanence (Philosophy).
- Language and languages--Philosophy.
- Language and languages.
- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical.
- God.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 290 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2012]
- Contents:
- Coordinates of a Conversation 1
- chapter 1 Mutual Introductions 23
- Similarities and Affinities 24
- Rigor 26
- Method 28
- Insight 32
- Chapter 2 Purposes and Ends 40
- Activity and Purpose 42
- Purpose and Responsibility 46
- ... and the World 48
- End 49
- Eternity 51
- Spinoza's Body 55
- Life 57
- Nothing 59
- Silence 61
- Chapter 3 Grammar 63
- Not My Purpose... 63
- History and the History of Philosophy 65
- The History of Philosophy and Philosophy 66
- Philosophy and the History of Science 68
- The History of Science, Language, and Philosophy Again 71
- Grammar and Paradigm Change 73
- From Grammar to Logic and Back 77
- Teacher and Student 80
- Wittgenstein's Body 84
- Telling Nonsense 86
- Chapter 4 Strategies 88
- Spinoza's Strategy; First Round 88
- Wittgenstein's Position 89
- Thinking of Strategy 90
- My Strategy 92
- The Strategy of the Tractatus: Opening Moves 97
- Working from Within 100
- The First Movement 102
- Classifying Propositions 107
- Performing Futility 110
- Chapter 5 Organizing Content 113
- Plans 114
- Structures 121
- Beginnings 125
- Matching Constraints 130
- Chapter 6 Metaphysics 137
- Substance I 139
- Spinoza's Grammar 142
- Spinoza's Strategy: Second Round 145
- Epistemologyl 151
- Language 155
- Substance II 159
- Bodies 165
- Afterlife 168
- Substance III 170
- Chapter 7 Matching Content 174
- Spinoza's Attributes 174
- Psychoanalysis 177
- Historical Materialism 181
- Scientific Perspectives versus Logical Manifolds 183
- Ideas versus Thoughts; Extended Modes versus Facts 185
- Epistemology II 188
- Chapter 8 Matching Form 194
- Possible Facts versus Possible Extended Modes 194
- Natural Space versus Logical Space 197
- Order and Connection versus Form and Structure 200
- The Metaphysical Subject 202
- Fractals 204
- Natural History 209
- Physics 214
- Natural Necessity versus Logical Possibility 219
- Logic in God, Logic of God 225
- Exodus: Toward History and Its Surprises 231.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780822944164
- 0822944162
- OCLC:
- 756044659
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