Spinoza and the Sciences

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

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.

• Baruch de Spinoza
• Bible
• Cartesian
• Spinoza
• Symposium
• bibliography
• conflicts
• ethics
• event
• living
• manuscript
• politics
• present
• seventeenth century
• translation

• University of California at Davis, USA

  Marjorie Grene

• University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

  Debra Nails

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