Spinoza's Metaphysics

This book offers a new and radical interpretation of the core of Spinoza's metaphysics.

Yitzhak Y. Melamed is a Professor in the Philosophy Department at Johns Hopkins University. He works on Early Modern Philosophy, German Idealism, and some issues in contemporary metaphysics (time, mereology, and trope theory).

- Contents - Introduction - Chapter 1: The Substance-Mode Relation as a Relation of Inherence and Predication - Chapter 2: Immanent Cause, Acosmism, and the Distinction between 'Modes of God' and 'Modes of an Attribute' - Chapter 3: Inherence, Causation, and Conception - Chapter 4: The Infinite Modes - Chapter 5: Spinoza's Two Doctrines of Parallelism - Chapter 6: The Multifaceted Structure of Ideas and the Priority of Thought - Bibliography - Index