Spinoza On Knowledge And The Human Mind: Papers Presented At The Second Jerusalem Conference (ethica Ii) (spinoza By 2000)

Truth, adequacy and error, the Mind-Body relation and the meaning of "having" an idea are issues still at the center of philosophical debate. Spinoza belongs to those past masters whose work always inspires renewed insights on these as on other philosophical issues. This volume revolves around Part II of Spinoza's opus magnum , the Ethics where he offers his theory of knowledge and the human mind. Stuart Hampshire writes about "Truth and Correspondence"; Alexandre Matheron discusses "Ideas of Ideas and Certainty"; Alan Donagan writes on "Language, Ideas and Reasoning"; Jonathan Bennett tackles the difficult one substance — two attributes issue, and Yirmiyahu Yovel analyzes 'common notions' and error. Papers are also presented by Jean-Luc Marion, Pierre-François Moreau, Guttorm Fløistad, Wallace I. Matson, Wim Klever, Elhanan Yakira, Marcelo Dascal, Wolfgang Bartuschat, Amihud Gilead and Filippo Mignini. This book is based on the second Jerusalem Conference (1989). Each conference in this series, and the ensuing volume, focuses on a specific 'family' of issues: the first five follow Spinoza's own division in his Ethics , and the other two deal with Spinoza's social and political theory and his life and sources. An outcome of a long-standing interest in Spinozistic thought by a group of first-rate scholars, this volume is sure to join the first one as indispensable reading for Spinoza students and scholars. Truth, adequacy and error, the Mind-Body relation and the meaning of "having" an idea are issues still at the centre of philosophical debate. Spinoza belongs to those past masters whose work always inspires renewed insights on these as on other philosophical issues. This volume revolves around part II of Spinoza's "opus magnum", the "Ethics" where he offers his theory of knowledge and the human mind. Stuart Hampshire writes about "Truth and Correspondence"; Alexandre Matheron discusses "Ideas of Ideas and Certainty"; Alan Donagon writes on "Language, Ideas and Reasoning"; Jonathan Bennett tackles the difficult one substance-two attributes issue; and Yirmiyahu Yovel analyzes "common notions" and error. Papers are also presented by Jean-Luc Marion, Pierre-Francois Moreau, Guttorm Floistad, Wallace I. Matson, Wim Klever, Elhanan Yakira, Marcelo Dascal, Wolfgang Bartuschat, Amihud Gilead and Filippo Mignini. This work is based on the second Jerusalem Conference (1989). Each conference in this series, and the ensuing volume, focuses on a specific "family" of issues: the first five follow Spinoza's own division in his "Ethics", and the other two deal with Spinoza's social and political theory and his life and sources Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents Abbreviations and Bibliographical Information Preface Truth and Correspondence in Spinoza Eight Questions about Spinoza The Metaphysics of Substance and the Metaphysics of Forms Spinoza’s Theory of Knowledge and the Part-Whole Structure of Nature Language, Ideas and Reasoning in Spinoza, Ethics II Spinoza on Beliefs Ideas of Ideas and Certainty in the Tractatus de Intellectus Emendatione and in the Ethics The Second Kind of Knowledge and the Removal of Error The Truth of Error: A Spinozistic Paradox Aporias and the Origins of Spinoza’s Theory of Adequate Ideas Ideas of Nonexistent Modes: Ethics II Proposition 8, its Corollary and Scholium Unfolding the One: “Abstract Relations” in Spinoza’s Theory of Knowledge The Infinite Intellect and Human Knowledge The Indispensability of the First Kind of Knowledge The Potency of Reason and the Power of Fortune Notes on Contributors Index