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Spinoza and the Sciences

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  • © 1986

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Editors:
  1. Marjorie Grene

    1. University of California at Davis, USA

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  2. Debra Nails

    1. University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

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Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 91)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Spinoza and Seventeenth Century Science

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Spinoza in the Century of Science

      • Nancy Maull
      Pages 3-13

    3. Spinoza and Cartesian Mechanics

      • André Lecrivain
      Pages 15-60

    4. Spinoza and the Rise of Modern Science in the Netherlands

      • Heine Siebrand
      Pages 61-91

  3. Spinoza: Scientist

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93
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    2. Spinoza: Scientist and Theorist of Scientific Method

      • David Savan
      Pages 95-123

    3. Spinoza and Euclidean Arithmetic: The Example of the Fourth Proportional

      • Alexandre Matheron
      Pages 125-150

  4. Spinoza and the Human Sciences: Politics and Hermeneutics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-151
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    2. Towards a Canonic Version of Classical Political Theory

      • Joseph Agassi
      Pages 153-170

    3. Some new Light on the Roots of Spinoza’s Science of Bible Study

      • Richard H. Popkin
      Pages 171-188

  5. Scientific-Metaphysical Reflections

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-189
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    2. Self-Knowledge as Self-Preservation?

      • J. Thomas Cook
      Pages 191-210

    3. Spinoza’s Version of the Eternity of the Mind

      • Genevieve Lloyd
      Pages 211-233

  6. Spinoza and Twentieth Century Science

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 235-235
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    2. Parallelism and Complementarity: The Psycho-Physical Problem in Spinoza and in the Succession of Niels Bohr

      • Hans Jonas
      Pages 237-247

    3. Res Extensa and the Space-Time Continuum

      • Joe D. Van Zandt
      Pages 249-266

    4. Einstein and Spinoza

      • Michel Paty
      Pages 267-302

  7. Bibliography

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 303-303
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    2. Annotated Bibliography of Spinoza and the Sciences

      • Debra Nails
      Pages 305-314
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About this book

Prefatory Explanation It must be remarked at once that I am 'editor' of this volume only in that I had the honor of presiding at the symposium on Spinoza and the Sciences at which a number of these papers were presented (exceptions are those by Hans Jonas, Richard Popkin, Joe VanZandt and our four European contributors), in that I have given some editorial advice on details of some of the papers, including translations, and finally, in that my name appears on the cover. The choice of speakers, and of addi­ tional contributors, is entirely due to Robert Cohen and Debra Nails; and nearly all the burden of readying the manuscript for the press has been borne by the latter. In the introduction to another anthology on Spinoza I opened my remarks by quoting a statement of Sir Stuart Hampshire about inter­ pretations of Spinoza's chief work: All these masks have been fitted on him and each of them does to some extent fit. But they remain masks, not the living face. They do not show the moving tensions and unresolved conflicts in Spinoza's Ethics. (Hampshire, 1973, p. 297) The double theme of 'moving tensions' and 'unresolved conflicts' seems even more appropriate to the present volume. What is Spinoza's rela­ tion to the sciences? The answers are many, and they criss-cross one another in a number of complicated ways.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of California at Davis, USA

    Marjorie Grene

  • University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

    Debra Nails

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Spinoza and the Sciences

  • Editors: Marjorie Grene, Debra Nails

  • Series Title: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4514-2

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company 1986

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-1976-8Published: 31 July 1986

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-8511-3Published: 27 September 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-4514-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0068-0346

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-7942

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 339

  • Topics: Philosophy of Science, History, general, Metaphysics

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