Titlebook: Infinity in Early Modern Philosophy; Ohad Nachtomy,Reed Winegar Book 2018 Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 20

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Descartes on the Infinity of Space vs. Time,r indefinite) extension of space is importantly different from the infinity of time. In both passages, he is anxious to block the application of his well-known argument for the indefinite extension of space to time, in order to avoid the theologically problematic implication that the world has no be

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,Infinity in Spinoza’s Therapy of the Passions, understanding of the infinite has not figured to the same extent in accounts of his therapy of the passions, the topic which this essay sets out to explore. My reasoning consists of six steps. First, I introduce Spinoza’s cognitive therapy, which claims that we can be healed from our passions by ac

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,All the Forms of Matter: Leibniz, Regis and the World’s Infinity, public exchange between the two philosophers. The controversy ended with a contribution by Regis who seemingly got the final word. The exchange mainly focused on Descartes’s ., III, art. 47, a text where Descartes held that the world would eventually take all the possible forms it is capable of. Wh

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,Leibniz’s Syncategorematic Actual Infinite,of this account to the scholastic notion of the syncategorematic infinite (more accurately, the infinite syncategorematically understood) has given rise to controversy. A common interpretation is that in mathematics Leibniz’s syncategorematic infinite is identical with the Aristotelian potential inf

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The Infinite Given Magnitude and Other Myths About Space and Time,undercut by his general theory of mathematical knowledge. On this general theory, pure intuition does not give objects of any determinate magnitude at all, but only . of possible objects. Specifically, what pure intuition itself yields is the recognition that any determinate space or time is part of

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1879-8578 liocentric solar system as well as the discovery of calculus. This volume offers readers an insightful look into all this and more. It provides a broad perspective that will help advance the present state of kn978-3-030-06874-5978-3-319-94556-9Series ISSN 1879-8578 Series E-ISSN 2352-2585