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5Introduction: Continental Realism – Picking Up the PiecesIn Marie-Eve Morin (ed.), Continental Realism and its Discontents, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 1-18. 2017.
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10Individuation of Finite Modes in Spinoza’s EthicsInternational Philosophical Quarterly 57 (3): 287-303. 2017.Spinoza’s rejection of Aristotelian final causation seems to create a difficulty for his account of individuation. If causation is indeed blind, how do finite modes come to assume complex, differentiated forms? And why do we find in nature a great regularity of such forms? Several recent commentators have proposed that Spinoza maintains something of the Aristotelian conception of causation where the formal essences of individuals guide the process of individuation toward certain desirable outcom…Read more
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