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14Ideas and Idealism in Philosophy. New Studies in the History and Historiography of Philosophy, edited by Simoniti, J. & Kroupa, G (review)History of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 1-10. forthcoming.
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7Spinoza on Ethics and Understanding by Peter Winch (edited book)Anthem Press. 2020.This volume unites Peter Winch's previously unpublished work on Baruch de Spinoza. The primary source for the text is a series of seminars on Spinoza that Winch gave, first at the University of Swansea in 1982 and then at King's College London in 1989. What emerges is an original interpretation of Spinoza's work that demonstrates his continued relevance to contemporary issues in metaphysics, epistemology and ethics, and establishes connections to other philosophers - not only Spinoza's predecess…Read more
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47Expression and the Perfection of Finite Individuals in Spinoza and LeibnizJournal of Early Modern Studies 11 (2): 31-48. 2023.It is obvious that both Spinoza and Leibniz attach importance to the notion of expression in their philosophical writings and that both do so in a similar fashion: They agree, for example, that the mind expresses the body (although this claim has rather different meanings for each of them). Another – albeit related – use of ‘expression’ that appears in both thinkers provides a deeper insight into some metaphysical similarity as well as difference: The idea that expression is closely connected wi…Read more
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7The Importance of Imagination in LeibnizIn Rudolf Meer, Giuseppe Motta & Gideon Stiening (eds.), Konzepte der Einbildungskraft in der Philosophie, den Wissenschaften und den Künsten des 18. Jahrhunderts, De Gruyter. pp. 25-37. 2019.
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10Throughout his philosophical career, Peter Winch had a particular interest in the philosophy of Spinoza, as is evidenced not only by a variety of references on a diverse range of issues in his works, but also by several lectures and seminars he delivered on this thinker. A reconstruction of his interpretation of Spinoza’s system, which unites epistemological, metaphysical and ethical considerations as mutually dependent, brings to the fore Winch’s interest in the individual not only as an import…Read more
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11When the Manner of Death Disagrees with the Status of Life. The Intricate Question of Suicide in Early Modern Philosophy.In Susan James (ed.), Life and Death in Early Modern Philosophy. pp. 211-226. 2021.This chapter discusses the development of philosophical discussions of suicide between the Middle Ages and David Hume’s ‘On Suicide’. In tracing the development of several arguments for and against suicide, it shows that the medieval phase of blanket prohibition met some resistance in Renaissance fictional accounts or renditions of Roman sources, but that early modern philosophers neither absorbed nor countered those arguments. Rather, they returned to a prohibitionist stance with arguments base…Read more
Areas of Specialization
17th/18th Century Philosophy |
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz |
Baruch Spinoza |
Areas of Interest
17th/18th Century Philosophy |
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz |
Baruch Spinoza |