"Rethinking Spinoza in light of the Principle of Sufficient Reason promises to be important not only for our understan…"

"Spinoza’s own view is one according to which human beings and the rest of reality are not explained in such different…"

"Spinoza can be seen as a pure philosopher, always seeking explanation, always refusing to be satisfied with primitive…"

"According to Spinoza’s system, all reality flows with strict necessity from the nature of God. With the geometrical m…"

"How many things are there in the world? Spinoza’s answer: one."

"I think that one who appreciates the fact that, if there are to be genuine causal connections, they must amount to co…"

"Unsurprisingly, then, Spinoza has not solved the mind-body problem. But he has advanced our understanding of it. He h…"

"Spinoza’s metaphysics is, in many ways, an effort to tap into the underlying rationalist motivations of Descartes’s m…"

"Spinoza’s parallelism embodies in many ways a deeply anti-Cartesian view. By keeping the causal chains of modes of ex…"

"As always with Spinoza, it is helpful to begin with God. The system of ideas that are parallel to modes of extension …"