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Eugene Marshall, The Spiritual Automaton

Dit boek, waarvan ik de komst in een blog van 6 september 2013 signaleerde, is inmiddels begin dit jaar uitgekomen:

Eugene Marshall, The Spiritual Automaton: Spinoza's Science of the Mind. Oxford University Press, 2014 - books.google

Tabel of Content - TOC
1: Introduction and Background
2: Adequate Ideas are Innate
3: Power, Conatus, and Affects
4: Affects and Consciousness
5: Moral psychology and bondage
6: Freedom, therapy, and salvation
Bibliography
Index 

Er bestaan niet veel studie over Spinoza's theorie over de geest/het mentale. Vandaar dat ik er hier weer eens apart op wijs. Ik heb zelf (ondanks dat ik al aardig wat blogs over dit onderwerp had) nog steeds wel behoefte aan een goede inleiding, waarin ook de relevante secundaire literatuur wordt meegenomen. Dat lijkt me via wat Google laat zien, redelijk het geval. Toch denk ik wel dat ik nog even wacht op de komst van de paperback.

En omdat het een beter beeld van de inhoud kan geven, geef ik hieronder de meer gedetailleerde TOC:

1. Introduction and Background
I. General Introduction 2. Background [2.1. Ideas 2.2. Inadequate Ideas 2.3. Inadequate Ideas, Essences, and Representation] 3. Conclusion of the Introduction

2. Adequate Ideas are Innate
1. Introduction 2. The Challenge 3. Adequacy [3.1. The Common Notions 3.2. God's Essence 3.3. Particular Essences] 4. Innateness [4.1. Skepticism Concerning Innateness in Spinoza 4.2. Leibniz and Spinoza on Innateness] 5. Conclusion

3. Power, Conatus, and Affects
1. Introduction 2. Power of Acting [2.1. Modes of Substance and the Power of Acting 2.2. On Complex Individuals 2.3. Ideas and Power] 3. Conatus [3.1. A Tendency to Persevere 3.2. The Tendency in Complex Individuals] 4. Affects of the Minds. 5. Adequate Ideas and Active Affects [5.1. Rejecting the Human Inadequacy Argument 5.2. Being an Adequate Cause 5.3. Adequacy and Explanation] 6. Conclusion

4. Affects and Consciousness
1. Introduction [1.1. A Note on Consciousness Terms in Spinoza] 2. Competing Theories [2.1. Ideas of Ideas 2.2. Complexity 2.3. The Power of an Idea] 3. A Theory of Consciousness in Spinoza [3.1. What Would a Good Account of Consciousness Look Like? 3.2. Consciousness as Affectivity 3.3. More Than Just Emotions 3.4. The Richness of Affectivity 3.5. Consciousness and Desire 3.6. Affectivity and the Ethical Project] 4. Objections [4.1. Avoiding Old Objections 4.2. Addressing New Concerns 4.3. An Evaluation and Summary of the Interpretation] 5. Conclusion

5. Moral Psychology and Bondage
I. Introduction 2. Bondage and Freedom [2.1. Two Senses of Freedom 2.2. Freedom and Action 2.3. Freedom and Living According to Reason 2.4. A Few Conclusions So Far] 3. The Mechanisms of Bondage [3.1. The Illusion of Free Will 3.2. Affects and Akrasia 3.3. Mind as Affective Mechanism 3.4- Akrasia in Spinoza 3.5. The Mechanisms of Bondage and Akrasia] 4. Conclusion

6. Freedom, Therapy, and Salvation
I. Introduction 2. The Affective Mechanisms of Freedom [2.1. The Mechanisms of Freedom 2.2. Further Mechanisms] 3. Blessedness, Salvation, and the Soul [3.1. Our Highest Happiness and Blessedness 3.2. Faith and Salvation 3.3. Consciousness and the Eternity of the Soul] 4. Final Conclusions

Bibliography Index

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