<i>Scientia Intuitiva</i> in the <i>Ethics</i>

Primus, Kristin

doi:10.1017/9781316339213.009

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“…Such an interpretive position, along with a justification of this position, has been given by a number of commentators (see Della Rocca 1996, chap. 5;Soyarslan 2013;Hübner 2015, 68;Primus 2017). But my reading is novel, I believe, in at least three ways.…”

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Essence, Experiment, and Underdetermination in the Spinoza-Boyle Correspondence

Harrop¹

2022

HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History

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I examine the (mediated) correspondence between Spinoza and Robert Boyle concerning the latter's account of fluidity and his experiments on reconstitution of niter in the light of the epistemology and doctrine of method contained in the Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect. I argue that both the Treatise and the correspondence reveal that, for Spinoza, the proper method of science is not experimental and that he accepted a powerful underdetermination thesis. I argue that, in contrast to modern versions, Spinoza's form of naturalism was a highly rationalist and antiempirical one. I conclude with a brief account of the value of experience and experimentation for Spinoza's scientific method.

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