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62. - Experience

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 January 2025

Karolina Hübner
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
Justin Steinberg
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
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Spinoza has long been criticized for despising experience. Critics sometimes express a preference for Descartes, more sensitive to psychological experience (such was the argument of the spiritualist school of Victor Cousin in France); others oppose him to Boyle, praised for having founded knowledge of nature on experimentation.

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Print publication year: 2024

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Curley, E. M. (1973). Experience in Spinoza’s theory of knowledge. In Grene, M. (ed.), Spinoza: A Collection of Critical Essays (pp. 2559). Anchor.Google Scholar
Moreau, P.-F. (1994). Spinoza: L’expérience et l’éternité. Presses Universitaires de France. Translated by R. Boncardo as Experience and Eternity in Spinoza (Edinburgh University Press, 2021).Google Scholar
Renz, U. (2010). Die Erklärbarkeit von Erfahrung: Subjektivität und Realismus in Spinozas Theorie des menschlichen Geistes. Klostermann. Translated as The Explainability of Experience: Realism and Subjectivity in Spinoza’s Theory of the Human Mind (Oxford University Press, 2018).Google Scholar

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