Monism : the priority of the whole / Jonathan Schaffer -- Existence monism trumps priority monism / Terry Horgan and Matjaž Potrč -- Why the world has parts : reply to Horgan and Potrč / Jonathan Schaffer -- Against monism / E.J. Lowe -- There is more than one thing / Philip Goff -- The world as we know it / Richard Healey -- On the common sense argument for monism / Donnchadh O'Conaill and Tuomas E. Tahko -- Substances stressed / John Heil -- Spinoza on composition and priority / Ghislain Guigon -- Why Spinoza is not an eleatic monist (or why diversity exists) / Yitzhak Y. Melamed -- Spinoza's monism and the reality of the finite / Steve Nadler -- Spinoza's monism? What monism? / Mogens Lœrke -- Spinoza's demonstration of monism : a new line of defense / Mark Kulstad -- Explanatory completeness and Spinoza's monism / Rebecca Newberger Goldstein.
Summary:
"Spinoza believed that there was only one substance in reality, which he called "God or nature." A number of leading contemporary philosophers have defended monism, this strange and beautiful idea that the cosmos is the source of all being. This book explores both the historical roots of the monism in Spinoza, and its flowering in the 21st century."--Publisher's website.
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