David Harmon

Associate Lecture in Early Modern Philosophy, University of St Andrews || Spinoza, Conway, and Motion ⚪

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[David Harmon @1part_harmony]

@danadler Thanks! Looks interesting. I'm no Wittgenstein scholar, but I'll give it a shot.

[David Harmon @1part_harmony]

Very happy to share that my paper, "Spinoza's Expansive Necessitarianism," has been published open access in the British Journal for the History of Philosophy. Turns out when you have a wild metaphysics, as Spinoza does, you also get a pretty wild ontology.

[David Harmon @1part_harmony]

@Lasermazer On David Lewis, I think not, since he wants to use "actual" as an indexical to pick out regions of possibility space (in a sense). I have another paper hopefully coming out soon that touches on that. On laws of nature, no, since on my reading of Spinoza, laws are universal.

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Link here: https://t.co/d8QeZyaU7c

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It's a weird one, in which I develop a view that I don't myself accept, but a fun one too! Conway's monism is quite puzzling.

[David Harmon @1part_harmony]

I'm happy to share (on Anne Conway's 394th birthday, by coincidence) that my paper, "Priority Monism in Anne Conway: Mediation through the Whole," has been published in the Journal of Modern Philosophy

https://t.co/szZSYH2fCL

[David Harmon @1part_harmony]

If you're interested in (i) what Spinoza thought about the (non-existent, but representationally informative) "bottom" of the mereological ladder or (ii) some subtle mistakes in a couple of famous 20th-century French interpretations of Spinoza, give the paper a glance!

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Happy to share that my paper, "Spinoza's Simplest Bodies" has been published open access in Philosophy. Very grateful to @asalgadoborge and @alexxdouglas for extremely helpful comments!
https://t.co/XyJ9lRETD0

[David Harmon @1part_harmony]

@saditious @noetic_emetic damn right!

[David Harmon @1part_harmony]

@Emiliarative Thank you!

[David Harmon @1part_harmony]

Defense: ✅
PhD acquired

[David Harmon @1part_harmony]

Submission: ✅
Defense: 🤞 (TBD)

[David Harmon @1part_harmony]

@gstv_rz Thank you!

[David Harmon @1part_harmony]

That's my cue. Gonna go ahead and start tweeting about Star Wars and 17th-century metaphysics for 4 likes in a new venue. If that's your jam, find me at https://t.co/BOoJNFIkls

[David Harmon @1part_harmony]

@alexxdouglas Thanks Alex!

[David Harmon @1part_harmony]

@laurenamdouglas Thanks very much Lauren!

[David Harmon @1part_harmony]

Submission: ✅
Defense: 🤞 (TBD)

[David Harmon @1part_harmony]

After spending the past four years closely dissecting certain features of Cartesian physics, today I have arrived at the tentative conclusion that Descartes *may* have gotten a few things very badly wrong.

[charlie @chunkbardey]

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