1st Edition

Davidson and Spinoza Mind, Matter and Morality

By Floris van der Burg Copyright 2007
116 Pages
by Routledge

116 Pages
by Routledge

Baruch Spinoza a Dutch rationalist philosopher of the 17th century and Donald Davidson one of the most distinguished contemporary American analytic philosophers, are two thinkers not usually analysed in conjunction with each other in the philosophical literature yet there are remarkable parallels in their thought. In this book Floris van der Burg identifies topics of comparison in the areas of... Read more
Contents: Introduction; A brief intellectual history; Mind versus matter: parallelism and anomalous monism; Knowing the world and those who live in it: issues in epistemology and metaphysics; Naturalism, representationalism and the linguistic turn; An ethics for our time?; Bibliography; Index.

Biography

Dr Floris van der Burg is from University College Utrecht, The Netherlands.