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Representation and the Mind-Body Problem in Spinoza

By Michael Della Rocca

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
1996
ISBN
9780195095623, 0195095626
LCC
B3998 .D39 1996
Open Library ID
OL804747M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
29 MB (30344050 bytes)
Pages
239\239
Library
avaxhome.ws
Time added
2010-05-31 15:29:46

Description

This first extensive study of Spinoza's philosophy of mind concentrates on two problems crucial to the philosopher's thoughts on the matter: the requirements for having a thought about a particular object, and the problem of the mind's relation to the body. Della Rocca contends that Spinoza's positions are systematically connected with each other and with a principle at the heart of his metaphysical system: his denial of causal or explanatory relations between the mental and the physical. In this way, Della Rocca's exploration of these two problems provides a new and illuminating perspective on Spinoza's philosophy as a system.

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