Explainability of Experience

Realism and Subjectivity in Spinoza's Theory of the Human Mind
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-0-19-935016-2
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 328 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 658 g

This book reconstructs Spinoza's theory of the human mind against the backdrop of the twofold notion that subjective experience is explainable and that its successful explanation is of ethical relevance, because it makes us wiser, freer, and happier. Doing so, the book defends a realist rationalist interpretation of Spinoza's approach which does not entail commitment to an ontological reduction of subjective experience to mere intelligibility. In contrast to a long-standing tradition of Hegelian reading of Spinoza's Ethics, it thus defends the notion that the experience of finite subjects is fully real.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Renz, Ursula

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 19. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Preface

- Contents

- Abbreviations

- Introduction: The Explainability of Experience

- Part I: The Basic Framework: The Ethics' Systematic Premises

- Chapter 1: Dissociating the Concept of Substance from the Concept of Subject

- Chapter 2: The Conception of Metaphysics in de Deo and its Implications

- Chapter 3: The Concept of the Individual and its Scope

- Part II: The Ontology of the Mental: On the Relationship between Being and Thought

- Chapter 4: The Primacy of the Metaphysics over the Theory of the Mind

- Chapter 5: The Concept of idea and Its Logic

- Chapter 6: The Justification of a Realist Rationalism

- Chapter 7: Body and Mind: What Spinoza's Theory of Identity Seeks to Achieve

- Part III: Theory of the Subject: The Concept of the Human Mind and Its Premises

- Chapter 8: The Problem of the Numerical Difference Between Subjects

- Chapter 9: Finitude, or the Limited Knowability of Finite Things

- Chapter 10: The Definition of the Human Mind in Its Derivation

- Chapter 11: Panpsychism, or the Question "What is the Subject of Experience?

- Part IV: Psychology and Epistemology: The Constitution, Experiential Quality, and Epistemic Value of Content

- Chapter 12: The Constitution of Mental Content in the imaginatio

- Chapter 13: Emotions, or How to Explain Qualities of Experience

- Chapter 14: Epistemology: The Possibility of Producing Successful Explanations

- Conclusion: Successful Explanation of Experience and Practical Philosophy

- Bibliography

- Index of Persons

- Index of Concepts

- Index of References to the Ethics

Über Autor(innen)

Ursula Renz is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria