Add to ORKGThis chapter argues that the standard conception of Spinoza as a fellow-travelling mechanical philosopher and proto-scientific naturalist is misleading. It argues, first, that Spinoza’s account of the proper method for the study of nature presented in the Theological-Political Treatise (TTP) points away from the one commonly associated with the mechanical philosophy. Moreover, throughout his works Spinoza’s views on the very possibility of knowledge of nature are decidedly sceptical (as specified below). Third, in the seventeenth-century debates over proper methods in the sciences, Spinoza sided with those that criticized the aspirations of those (the physico-mathematicians, Galileo, Huygens, Wallis, Wren, etc) who thought the application o...
I examine the (mediated) correspondence between Spinoza and Robert Boyle concerning the latter’s acc...
I examine the (mediated) correspondence between Spinoza and Robert Boyle concerning the latter’s acc...
I examine the (mediated) correspondence between Spinoza and Robert Boyle concerning the latter’s acc...
This chapter argues that the standard conception of Spinoza as a fellow-travelling mechanical philos...
This chapter argues that the standard conception of Spinoza as a fellow-travelling mechanical philos...
This chapter argues that the standard conception of Spinoza as a fellow-travelling mechanical philos...
This chapter argues that the standard conception of Spinoza as a fellow-travelling mechanical philos...
This chapter argues that the standard conception of Spinoza as a fellow-travelling mechanical philos...
This chapter argues that the standard conception of Spinoza as a fellow-traveling mechanical philoso...
This chapter argues that the standard conception of Spinoza as a fellow-traveling mechanical philoso...
Descartes, Gassendi, Galileo, Boyle, Spinoza, and Hobbes, among many others, were adherents of what ...
The central aim of my thesis is to enquire into Spinoza's theory of the structure of the physical un...
My dissertation considers Spinoza as a representative of the New Natural Philosophy and, in such a r...
I examine the (mediated) correspondence between Spinoza and Robert Boyle concerning the latter’s acc...
I examine the (mediated) correspondence between Spinoza and Robert Boyle concerning the latter’s acc...
I examine the (mediated) correspondence between Spinoza and Robert Boyle concerning the latter’s acc...
I examine the (mediated) correspondence between Spinoza and Robert Boyle concerning the latter’s acc...
I examine the (mediated) correspondence between Spinoza and Robert Boyle concerning the latter’s acc...
This chapter argues that the standard conception of Spinoza as a fellow-travelling mechanical philos...
This chapter argues that the standard conception of Spinoza as a fellow-travelling mechanical philos...
This chapter argues that the standard conception of Spinoza as a fellow-travelling mechanical philos...
This chapter argues that the standard conception of Spinoza as a fellow-travelling mechanical philos...
This chapter argues that the standard conception of Spinoza as a fellow-travelling mechanical philos...
This chapter argues that the standard conception of Spinoza as a fellow-traveling mechanical philoso...
This chapter argues that the standard conception of Spinoza as a fellow-traveling mechanical philoso...
Descartes, Gassendi, Galileo, Boyle, Spinoza, and Hobbes, among many others, were adherents of what ...
The central aim of my thesis is to enquire into Spinoza's theory of the structure of the physical un...
My dissertation considers Spinoza as a representative of the New Natural Philosophy and, in such a r...
I examine the (mediated) correspondence between Spinoza and Robert Boyle concerning the latter’s acc...
I examine the (mediated) correspondence between Spinoza and Robert Boyle concerning the latter’s acc...
I examine the (mediated) correspondence between Spinoza and Robert Boyle concerning the latter’s acc...
I examine the (mediated) correspondence between Spinoza and Robert Boyle concerning the latter’s acc...
I examine the (mediated) correspondence between Spinoza and Robert Boyle concerning the latter’s acc...