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UNINA9910778896803321 |
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Autore |
Della Rocca Michael |
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Titolo |
Representation and the mind-body problem in Spinoza [[electronic resource] /] / Michael Della Rocca |
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New York, : Oxford University Press, 1996 |
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ISBN |
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0-19-773154-6 |
1-280-45107-6 |
0-19-535731-0 |
0-585-36391-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (238 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Mind and body - History - 17th century |
Representation (Philosophy) - History - 17th century |
Philosophy of mind - History - 17th century |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-213) and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Abbreviations; One: Introduction; Two: Parallelism and Individuals; Three: The Mind-Relativity of Content; Four: Holism and the Causal Requirement on Representation; Five: The Essence Requirement on Representation; Six: Falsity; Seven: ""One and the Same Thing""; Eight: Spinoza, Opacity, and the Mind-Body Problem; Nine: Attributes and Identity; Notes; Bibliography; Index of Passages Cited; General Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This first extensive study of Spinoza's philosophy of mind concentrates on two problems crucial to the philosopher's thoughts on the matter: the requirements for having a thought about a particular object, and the problem of the mind's relation to the body. Della Rocca contends that Spinoza's positions are systematically connected with each other and with a principle at the heart of his metaphysical system: his denial of causal or explanatory relations between the mental and the physical. In this way, Della Rocca's exploration of these two problems provides a new and illuminating perspective o |
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