• Contributors


• Abbreviations


• Introduction


• 1 Spinoza's Lost Defense


• Edwin Curley


• 2 Fictio / Verziering (e) in Spinoza's Early Writings


• Filippo Mignini


• 3 The Problem of True Ideas in Spinoza's Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect


• Alan Nelson


• 4 Truth in Spinoza's Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect


• John Morrison


• 5 Spinoza's Rules of Living


• Michael LeBuffe


• 6 Leibniz on Spinoza's Tractatus de Intellectus Emendatione


• Mogens Laerke


• 7 Spinoza's Cartesian Dualism in the Korte Verhandeling


• Daniel Garber


• 8 Reason in the Short Treatise


• Colin Marshall


• 9 Spinoza's Calvin: Reformed Theology in the Korte Verhandeling


• Russ Leo


• 10 Spinoza, the Will, and the Ontology of Power


• John Carriero


• 11 Spinoza's Essentialism in the Short Treatise


• Valtteri Viljanen


• 12 When was Spinoza not Young any More?


• Frédéric Manzini


• 13 Spinoza on Eternity and Duration: the 1663 Connection


• Tad M. Schmaltz


• 14 Spinoza on Negation, Mind-Dependence and the Reality of the Finite


• Karlolina Hübner


• 15 Temporalities and Kinds of Cognition in the Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect, the Short Treatise, and the Ethics


• Oded Schechter


• 16 Spinoza's Early Anti-Abstractionism


• Samuel Newlands


• 17 A Glimpse into Spinoza's Metaphysical Laboratory: The Development of the Concepts of Substance and Attribute


• Yitzhak Y. Melamed


• 18 From the Passive to the Active Intellect


• Ursula Renz


• 19 Degrees of Essence and Perfection in Spinoza


• John Brandau


• 20 The Young Spinoza and the Vatican Manuscript of Spinoza's Ethics


• Pina Totaro


• Bibliography


• Index

Yitzhak Y. Melamed is a Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Spinoza's Metaphysics (OUP, 2013), and co-editor of Spinoza's Theological Political Treatise: A Critical Guide (2011), and of Spinoza and German Idealism ( 2012).

Ex nihilo nihil fit. Philosophy, especially great philosophy, does not appear out of the blue. In the current volume, a team of top scholars-both up-and-coming and established-attempts to trace the philosophical development of one of the greatest philosophers of all time.