Spinoza believed that there was only one substance in reality, which he called 'God or nature'. A number of leading contemporary philosophers have defended monism, this strange and beautiful idea that the cosmos is the source of all being. This book explores both the historical roots of the monism in Spinoza, and its flowering in the 21st century.

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PHILIP GOFF is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Liverpool, UK. His main philosophical aim is put consciousness back at the heart of metaphysics.

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Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors PART I: MONISM IN CONTEMPORARY METAPHYSICS Monism: The Priority of the Whole; J.Schaffer Existence Monism Trumps Priority Monism; T.Horgan & M.Potr? Why the World has Parts: Reply to Horgan and Potr?; J.Schaffer Against Monism; E.J.Lowe There Is More Than One Thing; P.Goff The World as We Know It; R.Healey On the Common Sense Argument for Monism; D.O'Conaill & T.E.Tahko Substances Stressed; J.Heil PART II: MONISM IN SPINOZA Spinoza on Composition and Priority; G.Guigon Why Spinoza Is Not an Eleatic Monist (Or Why Diversity Exists); Y.T.Melamed Spinoza's Monism and the Reality Of The Finite; S.Nadler Spinoza's Monism? What Monism?; M.Laerke Spinoza's Demonstration of Monism: A New Line of Defense; M.Kulstad Explanatory Completeness and Spinoza's Monism; R.N.Goldstein Index