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    The Infinite and the Indeterminate in Spinoza
    Dialogue 50 (3): 603-621. 2011.
    ABSTRACT: I argue that when Spinoza describes substance and its attributes as he means that they are utterly indeterminate. That is, his conception of infinitude is not a mathematical one. For Spinoza, anything truly infinite eludes counting s conception is closer to a grammatical one. I conclude by considering a number of arguments against this account of the Spinozan infinite as indeterminate
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    Spinoza’s Heresy: Immortality and the Jewish Mind (review)
    Symposium 8 (1): 156-158. 2004.
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    Heidegger and Galileo’s Slippery Slope
    Dialogue 48 (1): 59-76. 2009.
    ABSTRACT: In Die Frage nach dem Ding, Martin Heidegger characterizes Galileo as an important transitional figure in the struggle to replace the Aristotelian conception of nature with that of Newton. However, Heidegger only attends to Galileo’s modernity and not to those Aristotelian elements still discernible in Galileo’s work. This article fleshes out both aspects in Galileo in light of Heidegger’s discussion. It concludes by arguing that the lacuna in Heidegger’s account of Galileo is the cons…Read more