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Peeling potatoes or grinding lenses : Spinoza and young Wittgenstein converse on immanence and its logic / Aristides Baltas.

Van Pelt Library B3974 .B35 2012
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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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