Michael Della Rocca
Michael Della Rocca (born 1962)[citation needed] is Sterling Professor of Philosophy at Yale University and a specialist in early modern philosophy, especially Spinoza, and in metaphysics.
Education and career[edit]
Della Rocca earned his B.A. at Harvard University and his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley under the supervision of Benson Mates.[1] He joined the Yale faculty in 1991, and was promoted to Sterling Professor in 2021.[2] Among his doctoral students is Yitzhak Melamed.
Philosophical work[edit]
His interpretation of Spinoza emphasizes the centrality of the Principle of Sufficient Reason.[3] Daniel Garber, another leading Spinoza scholar, has argued against this interpretation.[4]
Publications[edit]
Books[edit]
- Representation and the Mind-Body Problem in Spinoza (Oxford University Press, 1996)
- Spinoza (Routledge, 2008)
- The Parmenidean Ascent (Oxford University Press, 2020)
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