...with that text. While in that seminar, I encountered Michael Della Rocca’s first book, ‘Representation and the Mind-Body Problem in Spinoza’. It was this commentary, alongside Spinoza’s writings themselves, that convinced me I...
...construe technology as a part of nature. I began with an exploration of Michael Della Rocca’s latest book, The Parmenidean Ascent, which challenges the foundation of philosophy with a deeply...
...Michael Della Rocca at the beginning of this series. Can you please speculate about how Spinoza might view our technological revolution and, specifically, the replication of the mind with artificial...
...interview with Michael Della Rocca on his latest book, The Parmenidean Ascent, we explored epistemological limits. This piece attempts to touch on unchartered territory concerning knowledge, science and technology. To...
...space is the strict monist conception highlighted at the beginning of this series with the exploration of Michael Della Rocca’s Parmenidean Ascent. In this extreme view, there are no distinctions...
...fundamentally mental. Perhaps Parmenides is the best other example of this phenomenological archetype, with his similar, radical monism. As highlighted in Michael Della Rocca’s excellent new book, The Parmenidean Ascent,...
The following interview is the first in the “Philosophy and the Mirror of Technology“ series. In this Q&A, Charlie Taben interviews Michael Della Rocca to further explore the epistemological implications...
Michael Della Rocca is a Professor of Philosophy at Yale University who has written extensively on early modern philosophy and contemporary metaphysics. He spoke with Charlie Taben about his new...
...both good and bad – on ordinary lives and worldviews. The series has been created by Charlie Taben who was inspired by conversations with Yale professor Michael Della Rocca and...
Michael Della Rocca grew up in Brooklyn, New York in an Italian-American family. After being educated at Harvard University and at U.C. Berkeley, he began teaching at Yale University where...
