Spinoza on Expression and Grounds of Intelligibility
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10689448 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Karolina Hübner (0000-0001-8207-4377, Cornell University), Róbert Mátyási (University of Pennsylvania) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 72 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 628-651 |
| Publication date | 2022-06-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Philosophical Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8094 • E-ISSN: 1467-9213 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/pq/pqab056 |
| OpenAlex | W4246506995 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 16 |
Recent literature on Spinoza has emphasized his commitment to universal intelligibility, understood as the claim that there are no brute facts. We draw attention to an important but overlooked element of Spinoza's commitment to intelligibility, and thereby question its most prominent interpretation, on which this commitment results in the priority of conceptual relations. We argue that such readings are both incomplete in their account of Spinozistic intelligibility and mistaken in their identification of the most fundamental relation. We argue that Spinoza is one of the first moderns to address the problem of conditions of intelligibility, and show that, in his metaphysics, expressive relations are best understood as relations of dependence for intelligibility: what a thing ‘expresses’ is its condition of intelligibility, that which determines how, through what concepts, it can be conceived
Epistemology · Intelligibility (philosophy) · Linguistics · Metaphysics · Medieval and Classical Philosophy · Philosophy · Political Theology and Sovereignty · Psychology · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |