Spinoza's epistemology through a geometrical lens / Matthew Homan.
Homan, Matthew, author
2021
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Title Spinoza's epistemology through a geometrical lens / Matthew Homan.
Author Homan, Matthew, author
ISBN 9783030767396 (electronic bk.)
3030767396 (electronic bk.)
3030767388
9783030767389
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76739-6
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Copyright ©2021
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xv, 256 pages) : illustrations
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-76739-6 doi
Call Number BD161
Dewey Decimal Classification 121.092
Summary 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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1. Introduction
2. Mathematics and Methodology: Spinoza Contra Skepticism
3. Realism and Antirealism About Mathematical Entities
4. Reason and Imagination in Spinozan Science
5. Geometry and Spinozan Science
6. Spinozas Notions of Essence
7. Intuitive Knowledge: The Perfection of Reason
8. Conclusion.

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