More than two-thirds of the Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect is about truth. Spinoza explains why true ideas are preferable (TIE 18-29), how to begin forming true ideas (TIE 30-48), and how to distinguish true ideas from other kinds of ideas (TIE 50-90).1 Spinoza’s account of truth is therefore our key to the Emendation. It would thus be disheartening if E
The article proposes a new solution to the long-standing problem of the universality of essences in ...
Constructive empiricism, the scientific anti-realism championed by Bas van Fraassen, claims to offer...
Spinoza’s metaphysics fails to employ a consistent use of terms, such as “finite” and “infinite”. Af...
Spinoza’s claims about true ideas are central to the Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect. I...
We want to propose a properly secular (non-transcendentalist or dualist) conception of immanence, on...
O objetivo deste trabalho é o exame da concepção espinosista da verdade, com ênfase no Tractatus de ...
As Spinoza states in his unfinished text The Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect, the emenda...
In this chapter, I first turn to Spinoza’s obscure “ideas of ideas” doctrine and his claim that “as ...
every idea has an object with which it is parallel in an “order and connection ” of causes (E2p7, E2...
The article explores the idea that according to Spinoza finite thought and substantial thought repre...
I examine the (mediated) correspondence between Spinoza and Robert Boyle concerning the latter’s acc...
The first two chapters of this dissertation address questions concerning Spinoza’s views on the natu...
The article proposes a new solution to the long-standing problem of the universality of essences in ...
Constructive empiricism, the scientific anti-realism championed by Bas van Fraassen, claims to offer...
Spinoza’s metaphysics fails to employ a consistent use of terms, such as “finite” and “infinite”. Af...
Spinoza’s claims about true ideas are central to the Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect. I...
We want to propose a properly secular (non-transcendentalist or dualist) conception of immanence, on...
O objetivo deste trabalho é o exame da concepção espinosista da verdade, com ênfase no Tractatus de ...
As Spinoza states in his unfinished text The Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect, the emenda...
In this chapter, I first turn to Spinoza’s obscure “ideas of ideas” doctrine and his claim that “as ...
every idea has an object with which it is parallel in an “order and connection ” of causes (E2p7, E2...
The article explores the idea that according to Spinoza finite thought and substantial thought repre...
I examine the (mediated) correspondence between Spinoza and Robert Boyle concerning the latter’s acc...
The first two chapters of this dissertation address questions concerning Spinoza’s views on the natu...
The article proposes a new solution to the long-standing problem of the universality of essences in ...
Constructive empiricism, the scientific anti-realism championed by Bas van Fraassen, claims to offer...
Spinoza’s metaphysics fails to employ a consistent use of terms, such as “finite” and “infinite”. Af...