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99Representation 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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59Essentialism versus EssentialismIn Tamar Gendler & John Hawthorne (eds.), Conceivability and Possibility, Oxford University 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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430Two spheres, twenty spheres, and the identity of indiscerniblesPacific Philosophical Quarterly 86 (4). 2005.I argue that the standard counterexamples to the identity of indiscernibles fail because they involve a commitment to a certain kind of primitive or brute identity that has certain very unpalatable consequences involving the possibility of objects of the same kind completely overlapping and sharing all the same proper parts. The only way to avoid these consequences is to reject brute identity and thus to accept the identity of indiscernibles. I also show how the rejection of the identity of indi…Read more
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28Review: Descartes-Inseparability-Almog (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 70 (3). 2005.Joseph Almog’s elegant and concise monograph, What am I?, simultaneously advances a new interpretation of Descartes’ dualism and offers a powerful articulation of the bearing of essentialist metaphysics on the mind-body problem. Some may object to Almog’s endeavor to see Descartes so much in light of recent, Kripkean developments in metaphysics. Some may object to this, but not me. The study of the history of philosophy is tough, and we cannot afford to neglect any potential source of insight. S…Read more
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157Interpreting Spinoza: The Real is the RationalJournal of the History of Philosophy 53 (3): 523-535. 2015.in his characteristically generous and searching discussion of my book, Spinoza, Daniel Garber rightly points out that I structure my interpretation of Spinoza’s system around the principle of sufficient reason. This is the principle that, as I and others sometimes put it, each fact has an explanation and is thus not brute, or the principle that each thing has an explanation. The ‘or’ will soon be important. Indeed, it might seem that I am too focused on the PSR—certainly I seem that way to Garb…Read more
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