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Project

An inquiry into Spinoza's criticism of the moral and epistemic aspirations of natural science
Code
01D43010
Duration
01 October 2010 → 30 September 2015
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Natural sciences
    • History and foundations
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Theory and methodology of philosophy
    • Philosophy
    • Ethics
    • Other philosophy, ethics and religious studies not elsewhere classified
Keywords
modern philosophy Spinoza natural science
 
Project description

The goal of the research project consists in explaining why according to Spinoza natural science is unable to tell us anything about the totality of nature, and therefore can never have the pretension to draw from its findings larger philosophical or moral conclusions. Spinoza was an early, informed critic of the moral and epistemic aspirations of natural science.