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Christopher Martin, Spinoza’s Argument for Substance Monism: Why There Is Only One Thing, Lexington Press, 2023, 134pp., $90.00 (hbk), ISBN 9781666927146.
Reviewed by Daniel Schneider, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Christopher Martin has two aims for his book, Spinoza’s Argument for Substance Monism: Why There Is Only One Thing.The first is to explore and defend Spinoza’s arguments for the claim that there “must and can only be one independent existing thing” (1), while the second is to “provide readers curious about Spinoza, or Modern philosophy more generally, with an illustration of what one living philosopher who focuses on the era does in their research” (2). While Martin generally succeeds in both of these aims, Martin’s defense of Spinoza’s substance monism is probably more sophisticated than what a reader looking for an introduction into Spinoza or modern philosophy would appreciate, while Martin’s aim at being accessible to those unfamiliar with Spinoza or Modern philosophy more generally leads…
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