Yitzhak Y. Melamed is the Charlotte Bloomberg Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. He works at the intersection of philosophy, Jewish and religious studies, the history of science, and contemporary metaphysics. He has been awarded the ACLS-Burkhardt, NEH, Fulbright, and Mellon Fellowships. He is the author of Spinoza's Metaphysics: Substance and Thought (2015), and a large number of studies on early modern philosophy, medieval philosophy, and German idealism.

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Introduction
Yitzhak Y. Melamed
Part I Life and Background
1 Spinoza's Life
Piet Steenbakkers
2 Spinoza's Philology
Piet Steenbakkers
3 Avicenna and Spinoza on the Essence and Existence
Stephen R. Ogden
4 Spinoza and Maimonides On True Religion
Warren Zev Harvey
5 Spinoza and Scholastic Philosophy
Emanuele Costa
6 Spinoza and Descartes
Denis Kambouchner
7 Spinoza's Dutch Philosophical Background
Henry Krop
8 Spinoza and Hobbes
Michael LeBuffe
Part II Metaphysics and Natural Philosophy
9 Spinoza's Monistic Metaphysics of Substance and Mode
Don Garrett
10 Spinoza on Eternity
Pierre-François Moreau
11 Spinoza on Causa Sui
Yitzhak Y. Melamed
12 Spinoza's Physical Picture
John Carriero
13 Spinoza's Mereology
Tad Schmaltz
14 Spinoza's Metaphysics of Time
Raphael Krut-Landau
15 Spinoza's Infinities
Luce DeLire
16 Spinoza on Diachronic Identity
Dominik Perler
17 Spinoza on Relations
Zachary Gartenberg
18 Spinoza on Numerical Identity and Time
John Morrison
19 Spinoza on Universals
Karolina Hübner
20 Spinoza Ontology of Power
Juan Manuel Ledesma Viteri
21 Spinoza's Modal Theory
Olli Koistinen
22 Spinoza on Determination
Noa Shein
23 Spinoza's Physics
Alison Peterman
Part III Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind and Psychology
25 Spinoza on Human and Divine Knowledge
Barnaby R. Hutchins and Ursula Renz
26 Reflexive Knowledge
Kristin Primus
27 Spinoza Against the Skeptics
Stephan Schmid
28 Spinoza on Ideas of Affections.
Lia Levy
29 The Mind-Body Union
Chantal Jacquet
30 Spinoza's Non-Theory of Non-Consciousness
Daniel Garber
31 Spinoza on the Passions and the Self
Andrea Sangiacomo
32 Spinoza's Two Paths to Enlightenment: The Serpent and the Dove
Michah Gottlieb
Part IV Ethics, Politics, and Religion
33 Spinoza's Moral Philosophy
Steven Nadler
34 Spinoza on the Constitution of Animal Species
Susan James
35 Essence, Virtue and the State
Erin Islo
36 Spinoza's Concept of Law
Pina Totaro
37 Spinoza's Notion of Freedom
Moira Gatens
38 Spinoza's Republican Ideas of Freedom
Michael A. Rosenthal
39 Spinoza and Economics
Eric Schlisser
40 Spinoza and Feminism
Hasana Sharp
41 Spinoza and International Law
Moa De Lucia Dahlbeck
42 The Intellectual Love of God
Clare Carlisle
43 Spinoza and the Scripture
Dan Arbib
Part V Aesthetics and Language
44 Spinoza' Aesthetics
Domenica G. Romagni
45 Spinoza on Semiotics
Lornzo Vinciguerra
46 Spinoza and the Grammar of the Hebrew Language
Guadalupe González Diéguez
Part VI Spinoza's Reception
47 Leibniz and Spinoza on Plentitude and Necessity
Jean-Pascal Anfray
48 Spinoza in France, 1670-1970
Mogens Laerke
49 Kant and Spinoza
Colin Marshall
50 Nietzsche and Spinoza
Jason Maurice Yonover
51 Schelling with Spinoza on Freedom
Daniel Dragicevic
52 Hegel on Spinozism and the Beginning of Philosophy
José María Sánchez de León
53 Schopenhauer's Critique of Spinoza's Pantheism, Optimism, and Egoism
Mor Segev
54 Spinoza and Popular Philosophy
Jack Stetter
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