Nature and necessity in Spinoza's philosophy / Don Garrett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Garrett, Don, author.

Standardized Title:

Essays. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677.

Spinoza, Benedictus de.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 533 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Summary:

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. This work brings together for the first time eighteen articles by Don Garrett on Spinoza's philosophy, ranging over the fields of metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, ethics, and political philosophy.

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)

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

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-088000-7

0-19-088001-5

0-19-087999-8