Martin Lin

Biographic Data

ID3866325
NAMEMartin Lin
GIVEN NAMESMartin
FAMILY NAMELin
SIGNATURELIN M
AFFILIATIONSRutgers, the State University of New Jersey
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS7
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2004
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
H-INDEX2

  • Principle of Sufficient Reason

    Yitzhak Melamed, Martin LinCHAPTERKalam Cosmological Argument2017

  • Everything in Its Right Place

    Martin LinARTICLEThe Philosophical Review2017

    Scholarship in the history of philosophy can take many wrong turns, many of which can be induced by professional pressures. New cutting-edge scholarship is supposed to be creative and original. This pushes historians of philosophy to formulate creative and original but sometimes utterly implausible interpretations. Another common misstep involves charity. Interpretation requires us to assume, insofar as we can, that the figure we are interpreting…

  • Spinoza’s Arguments for the Existence of God

    Open AccessMartin LinARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…2007Cited by: 3

    It is often thought that, although Spinoza develops a bold and distinctive conception of God (the unique substance, or Natura Naturans , in which all else inheres and which possesses infinitely many attributes, including extension), the arguments that he offers which purport to prove God’s existence contribute nothing new to natural theology. Rather, he is seen as just another participant in the seventeenth century revival of the ontological argu…

  • Teleology and Human Action in Spinoza

    Martin LinARTICLEThe Philosophical Review2006Cited by: 2

    Cover Date: July 2006.Source Info: 115(3), 317-354. Language: English. Journal Announcement: 41-2. Subject: ACTION; CAUSATION; METAPHYSICS; REPRESENTATION; TELEOLOGY. Subject Person: SPINOZA, BENEDICT DE (BARUCH). Update Code: 20130315

  • Substance, Attribute, and Mode in Spinoza

    Open AccessMartin Lin, Martin Hsiu‐Chu LinARTICLEPhilosophy Compass2006Cited by: 2References: 4

    Some of Spinoza's most well-known doctrines concern what kinds of beings there are and how they are related to each other. For example, he claims that: (1) there is only one substance; (2) this substance has infinitely many attributes; (3) this substance is God or nature; (4) each of these attributes express the divine essence; and (5) all else is a mode of the one substance. These claims have so astonished many of his readers that some of them h…

  • Spinoza

    Martin LinARTICLEThe Philosophical Review2004

    Book Review| January 01 2004 Spinoza: Metaphysical Themes Olli Koistinen and John Biro, editors, Spinoza: Metaphysical Themes. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. viii, 255. Martin Lin Martin Lin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2004) 113 (1): 139–143. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-113-1-139 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Martin Lin; Spinoza:…