Dit wordt een enigszins merkwaardig blog. Daar ik geen enkel werk over Spinoza kan vinden van iemand die aan twee niet onopgemerkt gebleven anthologieën over Spinoza als redacteur bijdroeg, schrijf ik dit blog waarin ik bijeenbreng wat ik over hem kon vinden.
John Biro behaalde z'n Ph.D. aan de Syracuse University. Hij was Professor of Philosophy aan de University of Florida van 1989 - 1998. [Cf. Document Faculty and Staff van die universiteit; PDF cf. ook dit latere overzicht in PDF]
Hij
was mederedacteur van twee essay-verzamelingen over Spinoza, n.l.:
I •
Robert W. Shahan & J. I. Biro (eds.), Spinoza:
new perspectives. Norman: University of Oklahoma, 1978; reprint dec. 1980 -
240 pages
Over
die reader schreef ik in het blog van 14-03-2017, "Een Spinoza-special van 40 jaar
geleden." Daar bracht ik behalve de cover ook de Inhoudsopgave. die
inhoudsopgave noemt geen bijdrage van Biro.
Vandaag
kwam ik een andere cover tegen, die mij nieuwsgierig maakte. Deze cover die ik
hier laat zien, zal van die waarschijnlijke 1980-reprint zijn, welk gegeven ik
ontleen aan Amazon (die dan weer geen cover geeft, maar wel deze andere
datum van uitgave; de Spinozabibliografie weet van geen reprint.)
II •
Olli I. Koistinen, & John I. Biro (eds.), Spinoza: Metaphysical Themes. Oxford University Press, 2002 - 272 pagina's – books.google
Van dit werk hier de inhoudsopgave (klikken vergroot), en ook daarin komt geen bijdrage voor van Biro (hij zal hooguit hebben meegeschreven aan de introductie).
CONTENTS
CONTENTS
There is always
room for another book on Spinoza. I would not say this about every great dead
philosopher, least of all those with as quantitatively slim an output as
Spinoza. But there still seem to be so many corners left to explore in
Spinoza’s deep and rich philosophy, so many unanswered – even unasked –
questions, that we should not begrudge yet another monograph or anthology that
promises something new. Even those aspects of Spinoza’s thought that have
received the most attention from contemporary philosophers – his metaphysics
and epistemology – remain notoriously difficult and endlessly fascinating, and
cry out for innovative and creative interpretations.
This new collection of essays, all previously unpublished, does a good job of focusing discussion on some important philosophical, interpretative and historical issues around Spinoza’s philosophy. The editors explicitly set themselves the task of producing a problem-oriented set of essays, self-consciously modeling themselves, they say, on Jonathan Bennett’s work on Spinoza. If what this means is that part of their aim is to add to the case for Spinoza’s continued philosophical relevance – as opposed to what may be his “merely historical” importance – then they have, to a large degree, succeeded. Many of the essays in this volume address pressing issues raised in and by Spinoza’s philosophy with the clarity and analytical rigor of contemporary metaphysics and epistemology but (for the most part) without losing sight of what Spinoza himself was really about.
This new collection of essays, all previously unpublished, does a good job of focusing discussion on some important philosophical, interpretative and historical issues around Spinoza’s philosophy. The editors explicitly set themselves the task of producing a problem-oriented set of essays, self-consciously modeling themselves, they say, on Jonathan Bennett’s work on Spinoza. If what this means is that part of their aim is to add to the case for Spinoza’s continued philosophical relevance – as opposed to what may be his “merely historical” importance – then they have, to a large degree, succeeded. Many of the essays in this volume address pressing issues raised in and by Spinoza’s philosophy with the clarity and analytical rigor of contemporary metaphysics and epistemology but (for the most part) without losing sight of what Spinoza himself was really about.
In
het overzicht van de contributors in dit werk is over Biro te lezen:
John
Biro is professor of philosophy at the University of Florida. He has published
numerous essays on eighteenth-century philosophy, as well as on topics of
current interest in the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of language. He
is co-editor of three volumes, Spinoza:
New Perspectives (University of Oklahoma Press, 1978), Mind, Brain, and Function (University of Oklahoma Press, 1982), and
Frege: Sense and Reference One Hundred
Years Later (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995).Hij is dan wel met emeritaat, maar nog actief, zoals blijkt uit de NEWSLETTER 2012 van de FLORIDA PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOCIATION, In het PDF waarin te lezen is:
John
Biro has several recent publications, including: with Harvey Seigel, “Argumentation,
Arguing, and Arguments: Comments on Giving Reasons”, Theoria (2011); “Calling Names”, Analysis (2012); and a Review of Galen Strawson’s The Evident Connection, Mind (2012). Forthcoming is “Showing the
Time”, Analysis (2013).
Maar
hoe ik ook mijn best doe, behalve Biro’s co-redacteurschap van de twee genoemde anthologieën,
waaraan hij dus niet zelfstandig iets bijdroeg, is er geen enkel artikel of
hoofdstuk van hem over Spinoza te vinden. Dit vind ik zo opvallend, dat ik het
een apart blog waard vond.
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