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Record W4414753228 · doi:10.1080/09608788.2025.2551577

Is Spinoza a dualist?

2025· article· en· W4414753228 on OpenAlexaff
Ilgin Aksoy

Bibliographic record

VenueBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicSeventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
Canadian institutionsMemorial University of Newfoundland
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMonismDualismSubject (documents)Relation (database)OntologyIdiosyncrasyPhilosophy of mind

Abstract

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The traditional treatment of Spinoza’s substance and modes is in a two-category ontology, which can be called ‘category dualism’ or ‘substance-property dualism’ that construes two ontological categories, one of which is the more ontologically fundamental substance, res, subject or object, and other more superficial ones that inhere in, are predicated of, or ontologically depend on the former, traditionally coined as accidents, modes, or more neutrally, properties. The idiosyncrasy of substance-property dualism is to deny a part-whole structure of the relation between its two categories. This seems to be in accordance with Spinoza’s endorsement of substance and modes as the two categories of his ontology, where substance is the fundamental entity and the modes are ontologically dependent on it, as well as the indivisibility of substance into parts. Nevertheless, other scholars have conceived a priority monistic structure of this relationship, which takes substance and modes in a whole-part relationship. In this paper, I argue against category dualism by developing three original objections in favour of a category monistic along with the priority monistic reading.

Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.

How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.012
Threshold uncertainty score0.047

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0020.001
Science and technology studies0.0080.034
Scholarly communication0.0120.015
Open science0.0010.006
Research integrity0.0030.007
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0110.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.079
GPT teacher head0.277
Teacher spread0.197 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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