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Spinoza's epistemology through a geometrical lens / Matthew Homan.

9783030767396 (electronic bk.)
3030767396 (electronic bk.)
3030767388
9783030767389

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]

©2021

English

1 online resource (xv, 256 pages) : illustrations

10.1007/978-3-030-76739-6 doi

BD161

121.092

This book interrogates the ontology of mathematical entities in Spinoza as a basis for addressing a wide range of interpretive issues in Spinozas epistemologyfrom his antiskepticism and philosophy of science to the nature and scope of reason and intuitive knowledge and the intellectual love of God. Going against recent trends in Spinoza scholarship, and drawing on various sources, including Spinozas engagements with optical theory and physics, Matthew Homan argues for a realist interpretation of geometrical figures in Spinoza; illustrates their role in a Spinozan hypothetico-deductive scientific method; and develops Spinozas mathematical examples to better illuminate the three kinds of knowledge. The result is a portrait of Spinozas epistemology as sanguine and distinctive yet at home in the new Cartesian and Galilean scientific-philosophical paradigm. Matthew Homan is Senior Lecturer of Philosophy at Christopher Newport University, USA.

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