Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal

A Cartesian Misreading of Spinoza’s Understanding of Adequate Knowledge, by Norman Whitman

Article available through Philosophy Documentation Center, here.

Norman Whitman is Lecturer of Philosophy at the University of Houston-Downtown. He is the author of “The Reality of Modes in Spinoza’s Philosophy,” Idealistic Studies (forthcoming); and “John Witherspoon,” in American Philosophy: An Encyclopedia, ed. John Lachs and Robert Talisse (Routledge, 2008). His research interests include the philosophy of religion and the history of philosophy, with a focus on Spinoza.

Norman Whitman, “A Cartesian Misreading of Spinoza’s Understanding of Adequate Knowledge,” Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 40:1 (2019), pp. 103-30.

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