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70Review of John Carriero, Between Two Worlds: A Reading of Descartes's Meditations (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2009 (7). 2009.
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101Die erklärbarkeit Von erfahrung. Realismus und subjektivität in spinozas theorie Des menschlichen geistes (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 49 (3): 377-378. 2011.Can one have one's rationalism and subjectivity too? That is, can one endorse a full-blooded Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR)—the claim that everything is intelligible—and yet regard experience of the world from a finite, subjective perspective as a genuine feature of that world? Many have thought not. Viewing the world sub specie aeternitatis—as rationalism seems to require—leaves no room for the arbitrary privileging of a particular spatio-temporal location that is often the hallmark of su…Read more
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96Representation and the Mind-Body Problem in SpinozaOup Usa. 1995.Della Rocca concentrates on two problems crucial to Spinoza 's philosophy of mind: the requirements for having a thought about a particular object, and the problem of the mind's relation to the body. He contends that for Spinoza these two problems are linked and thus part of a systematic philosophy of mind
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54Essentialism versus EssentialismIn Tamar Szabo Gendler & John Hawthorne (eds.), Conceivability and Possibility, Clarendon Press. 2002.
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14The Oxford Handbook to Spinoza (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2013.Until recently, Spinoza's standing in Anglophone studies of philosophy has been relatively low and has only seemed to confirm Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi's assessment of him as "a dead dog." However, an exuberant outburst of excellent scholarship on Spinoza has of late come to dominate work on early modern philosophy. This resurgence is due in no small part to the recent revival of metaphysics in contemporary philosophy and to the increased appreciation of Spinoza's role as an unorthodox, pivotal …Read more
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3Mental Content and Skepticism in Descartes and SpinozaStudia Spinozana: An International and Interdisciplinary Series 10 19-42. 1995.
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2Representation and the Mind-Body Problem in SpinozaRevue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 189 (4): 555-557. 1996.
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