Episode #1 - Radical Monism w/ Michael Della Rocca

Welcome to Episode #1 of Aporia Podcast w/ Sean Winkler! For today's episode, we'll be joined by Prof. Michael Della Rocca of Yale University. Currently holding the Sterling Professorship of Philosophy, Michael is the author of Representation and the Mind-Body Problem in Spinoza (1996), Spinoza (2008), The Parmenidean Ascent (2020) and numerous articles in analytic philosophy and the history of philosophy, along with being the editor of The Oxford Handbook of Spinoza (2013). We discuss his major sources of inspiration in Spinoza, Parmenides and British Idealist F.H. Bradley, in addition to his contributions to the discussion of concepts like the principle of sufficient reason and radical monism. Guest: Prof. Michael Della Rocca Host: Sean Winkler Editor: Olga Bashkina