Spinoza’s Epistemology through a Geometrical Lens

Matthew Homan (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

XV, 256 Seiten

2021 | 1st ed. 2021
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-76738-9 (ISBN)

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This book interrogates the ontology of mathematical entities in Spinoza as a basis for addressing a wide range of interpretive issues in Spinoza's epistemology-from 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 Spinoza's 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 Spinoza's mathematical examples to better illuminate the three kinds of knowledge. The result is a portrait of Spinoza's epistemology as sanguine and distinctive yet at home in the new Cartesian and Galilean scientific-philosophical paradigm.

lt;b>Matthew Homan is Senior Lecturer of Philosophy at Christopher Newport University, USA.

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.Spinoza's Notions of Essence.- 7.Intuitive Knowledge: The Perfection of Reason.- 8. Conclusion.

Erscheinungsdatum	07.07.2021
Zusatzinfo	XV, 256 p. 2 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	483 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
Schlagworte	Aaron Garrett • Descartes • Galileo • mathematical realism • Valtteri Viljanen
ISBN-10	3-030-76738-8 / 3030767388
ISBN-13	978-3-030-76738-9 / 9783030767389
Zustand	Neuware