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Re: Greetings

Terry Neff — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 13:48:29 GMT

Hi Frans, May I echo Hans' "Welcome to this list!" I have only recently taken up a study of the Neurosciences and have been reading Kandel, et.al.'s

Re: Greetings

hans68@... — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:42:42 GMT

Hi Frans, Welcome to this list! I'm looking forward to contributions from your perspective. I'm interested in the works in the works of "brain-researchers"

Greetings

Fran Weizmann — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 09:52:41 GMT

Hi, This is my first mail to the List and I hope to share and to enjoy the life of the group, as I do with other Yahoo Groups of related subjects. I am a

Re: Semiotics, Spinoza, & Star Trek

Ralph Dumain — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:48:48 GMT

Yes, the blogger had Spinoza all wrong with respect to atheism, materialism, and scientific method. It's one of the many things that makes the blog juvenile,

Re: Semiotics, Spinoza, & Star Trek

Terry Neff — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:26:49 GMT

Hi Ralph and All, Thanks for the links. For another "Star Trek / Spinoza" link see the end of this message. In the blog you pointed to titled; "Semiotics,

Spinoza's root/-s/-lessness

Ralph Dumain — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:11:33 GMT

Dascal, Marcelo. Baruch-Benedictus: From uprooted roots to root-independent ideas?. Studia

Semiotics, Spinoza, & Star Trek

Ralph Dumain — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 05:40:36 GMT

Semiotics, Spinoza, & Star Trek This particular sample

Re: Spinozism as activism

hans68@... — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:20:47 GMT

Of course I agree with the general line of thought of your post. I hope you accept my method of writing: Quoting passages in order to develop our

Re: Leibniz & Spinoza

Markku Roinila — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:54:17 GMT

You can also take a look at Studia Spinozana 6 (1990), which is devoted to articles on Spinoza & Leibniz. The similarity is striking in affections, especially

Re: Spinozism as activism

Ralph Dumain — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:44:36 GMT

Better this than fraudulent New Age Buddhist bullshit. I don't remember much of Balibar's book, which I think I read a year ago, but his characterization of

Spinozism as activism

hans19682000 — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 09:30:31 GMT

It is really beautiful to see how the political Spinozsim of Balibar converges with statements by activists. Some notes from my "lab" ... Balibar: "When an

Re: Rebecca Goldstein on betraying Spinoza/opacity

hans68@... — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:45:22 GMT

Opacity: I looked up the word and found: o?pac?i?ty / o'pasite/ ? n. the condition of lacking transparency or translucence; opaqueness: thinner

Re: Rebecca Goldstein on betraying Spinoza, again

hans68@... — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:30:53 GMT

I'm not able to comment on Althusser, but I looked up some passages concerning the "elements or dimensions" in his quote. These books - by 'Althusserians' -

Re: Rebecca Goldstein on betraying Spinoza, again

Ralph Dumain — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:56:28 GMT

Interesting. I don't quite grasp this quote, not without further elaboration. Althusser is known to have made a big deal out of Spinoza. When I went looking

Re: Rebecca Goldstein on betraying Spinoza, again

hans68@... — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:05:31 GMT

Hi, You quoted Goldstein: "Spinoza, you could say, had three goals: to understand reality, to find comfort and salvation in that understanding, and to change