Palgrave Macmillan | Spinoza's Epistemology Through A Geometrical Lens (2021 EN)

Author: Matthew Homan
Full Title: Spinoza's Epistemology Through A Geometrical Lens
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; 1st ed. 2021 edition (August 6, 2021)
Year: 2021
ISBN-13: 9783030767396 (978-3-030-76739-6), 9783030767389 (978-3-030-76738-9)
ISBN-10: 3030767396, 3030767388
Pages: 256
Language: English
Genre: Philosophy: Epistemology
File type: EPUB (True), PDF (True)
Quality: 10/10
Price: 117.69 €


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.


Overview:
✓ Approaches Spinoza's epistemology with a view toward evaluating whether he is mathematical realist like Descartes and Galileo
✓ Distinguishes between different types of knowledge in Spinoza's work?
✓ Shows the extent and importance of the connection between Spinoza's epistemology and mathematical realism

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