Shannon Dea
Biographic Data
| ID | 1402287 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shannon Dea |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shannon |
| FAMILY NAME | Dea |
| SIGNATURE | DEA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Waterloo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4535-5441 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Without Apology
She has generously reviewed several chapters, and I appreciate her support, advice, and friendship throughout
The Infinite and the Indeterminate in Spinoza
I argue that when Spinoza describes substance and its attributes as "infinite," he means that they are utterly indeterminate. That is, his conception of infinitude is not a mathematical one. For Spinoza, anything truly infinite eludes counting - not because it is so large as to be uncountable, but because it is just not the kind of thing that can be enumerated or measured. Contra the contemporary mathematical conception of the infinite, I argue t…
Heidegger and Galileo’s Slippery Slope
In Die Frage nach dem Ding , Martin Heidegger characterizes Galileo as an important transitional figure in the struggle to replace the Aristotelian conception of nature with that of Newton. However, Heidegger only attends to Galileo’s modernity and not to those Aristotelian elements still discernible in Galileo’s work. This article fleshes out both aspects in Galileo in light of Heidegger’s discussion. It concludes by arguing that the lacuna in H…
Merely a veil over the living thought
Shannon Dea, "Merely a Veil over the Living Thought": Mathematics and Logic in Peirce's Forgotten Spinoza Review, Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, Vol. 42, No. 4 (Fall, 2006), pp. 501-517
Thomas Reid's Rigourised Anti-Hypotheticalism
Clients' Perspectives on Problems Many Years After Traumatic Brain Injury
The Infinite and the Indeterminate in Spinoza
I argue that when Spinoza describes substance and its attributes as "infinite," he means that they are utterly indeterminate. That is, his conception of infinitude is not a mathematical one. For Spinoza, anything truly infinite eludes counting - not because it is so large as to be uncountable, but because it is just not the kind of thing that can be enumerated or measured. Contra the contemporary mathematical conception of the infinite, I argue t…
Clients' Perspectives on Problems Many Years After Traumatic Brain Injury
Thomas Reid's Rigourised Anti-Hypotheticalism
Merely a veil over the living thought
Shannon Dea, "Merely a Veil over the Living Thought": Mathematics and Logic in Peirce's Forgotten Spinoza Review, Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, Vol. 42, No. 4 (Fall, 2006), pp. 501-517
Heidegger and Galileo’s Slippery Slope
In Die Frage nach dem Ding , Martin Heidegger characterizes Galileo as an important transitional figure in the struggle to replace the Aristotelian conception of nature with that of Newton. However, Heidegger only attends to Galileo’s modernity and not to those Aristotelian elements still discernible in Galileo’s work. This article fleshes out both aspects in Galileo in light of Heidegger’s discussion. It concludes by arguing that the lacuna in H…
The Infinite and the Indeterminate in Spinoza
I argue that when Spinoza describes substance and its attributes as "infinite," he means that they are utterly indeterminate. That is, his conception of infinitude is not a mathematical one. For Spinoza, anything truly infinite eludes counting - not because it is so large as to be uncountable, but because it is just not the kind of thing that can be enumerated or measured. Contra the contemporary mathematical conception of the infinite, I argue t…
Without Apology
She has generously reviewed several chapters, and I appreciate her support, advice, and friendship throughout
Philosophy (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Mathematics (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought (2 works) · Abortion (1 work) · Abortion (1 work) · Abortion rights (1 work) · Algorithm (1 work) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (1 work)