Freedom, Action, and Motivation in Spinoza's "Ethics" - Paperback

by Noa Naaman-Zauderer (Editor)

These essays provide different, sometimes opposing interpretations of Spinoza's views of freedom, action, and motivation as they operate across all parts of the Ethics and discuss how they contribute to contemporary discussions in the philosophy of action and motivation.

Author Biography

Noa Naaman-Zauderer is Tenured Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Tel Aviv University. She is the author of Descartes: The Loneliness of a Philosopher (2007), of Descartes' Deontological Turn: Reason, Will, and Virtue in the Later Writings (2010; paperback 2013), and of articles and book chapters on Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz.