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Spinoza s Epistemology through a Geometrical Lens is a thrilling and distinctive study of Spinoza s epistemology. It s also a major study of Spinoza s relationship to the unfolding scientific revolution. In particular, Homan reopens and deepens the debate over Spinoza s ambivalent relationship to mathematization of nature by the mathematical sciences. In so doing he offers an elegant re-reading of Spinoza as a systematic philosopher. Homan s book will be of great interest to Spinozists and scholars of early modern philosophy, historians of science, philosophers of mathematics and epistemologists, especially those interested in affective ways of knowing.â (
Eric Schliesser, Professor of Political Science, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)