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Representation and the mind-body problem in Spinoza

Author: Michael Della Rocca
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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This book offers a powerful new reading of Spinoza's philosophy of mind, the aspect of Spinoza's thought often regarded as the most profound and perplexing. Michael Della Rocca argues that interpreters of Spinoza's philosophy of mind have not paid sufficient attention to his causal barrier between the mental and the physical. The first half of the book shows how this barrier generates Spinoza's strong requirements  Read more...
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Named Person: Benedictus de Spinoza; Benedictus de Spinoza
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Michael Della Rocca
ISBN: 0195095626 9780195095623
OCLC Number: 33244756
Description: xiv, 223 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 1. Introduction --
2. Parallelism and Individuals --
3. The Mind-Relativity of Content --
4. Holism and the Causal Requirement on Representation --
5. The Essence Requirement on Representation --
6. Falsity --
7. "One and the Same Thing" --
8. Spinoza, Opacity, and the Mind-Body Problem --
9. Attributes and Identity.
Responsibility: Michael Della Rocca.
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This book offers a powerful new reading of Spinoza's philosophy of mind, the aspect of Spinoza's thought often regarded as the most profound and perplexing. Michael Della Rocca argues that interpreters of Spinoza's philosophy of mind have not paid sufficient attention to his causal barrier between the mental and the physical. The first half of the book shows how this barrier generates Spinoza's strong requirements for having an idea about an object. The second half of the book explains how this causal separation underlies Spinoza's intriguing argument for mind-body identity. Della Rocca concludes his analysis by solving the famous problem of whether for Spinoza the distinction between attributes is real or somehow merely subjective.

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