Valtteri Viljanen
Ph.D., Docent in the History of Philosophy
Senior Researcher
Arcanum 224
Postal address
School of History, Culture and Arts Studies
University of Turku
20014 Turku
Finland
Telephone
+358 45 650 4656
E-mail
valvil@utu.fi
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Books
(With Justin Steinberg.) Spinoza. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2021. [In the UK already on 16 October 2020.]
Spinoza’s Geometry of Power.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011 (paperback edition 2014). [Review by Michael Della Rocca.]
[Review by Mogens Laerke.]
[Review by John Morrison.] [Review by Stephan Schmid.]
(Edited with Juhani Pietarinen) The World as Active Power: Studies in the History of European Reason. Leiden: Brill, 2009.
Papers
“Why Virtue Is not Quite Enough: Descartes on Attaining Happiness.” Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, forthcoming in 2021. [Here is the ahead-of-print version.]
“Kant on Moral Agency: Beyond the Incorporation Thesis.” Kant-Studien 2020, 111 (3): 423–44. [Here is the version containing the Cambridge Edition English translations of the primary source quotations.]
“The Young Spinoza on Scepticism, Truth, and Method.” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 2020, 50 (1): 130–42.
“Spinoza on Activity and Passivity: The Problematic Definition Revisited.” – M. Reuter & F. Svensson (eds.), Mind, Body and Morality: New Perspectives on Descartes and Spinoza, 157–74. London: Routledge, 2019.
“Spinoza’s Ontology Geometrically Illustrated: A Reading of Ethics IIP8S.” – B. Lord (ed.), Spinoza’s Philosophy of Ratio, 5–18. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018.
“Spinoza’s Essentialism in the Short Treatise.” – Y. Melamed (ed.), The Young Spinoza: A Metaphysician in the Making, 183–95. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.
“Theory of Conatus.” – A. Santos Campos (ed.), Spinoza: Basic Concepts, 95–105. Exeter: Imprint Academic.
“Spinoza on Virtue and Eternity.” – M. J. Kisner & A. Youpa (eds.), Essays on Spinoza’s Ethical Theory, 258–71. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
“Spinoza on Activity in Sense Perception.” – J. F. Silva & M. Yrjönsuuri (eds.), Active Perception in the History of Philosophy: From Plato to Modern Philosophy, 241–54. Dordrecht: Springer, 2014.
“Review of Spinoza Past and Present: Essays on Spinoza, Spinozism, and Spinoza Scholarship by Wiep van Bunge.” Renaissance Quarterly 66 (3), 2013: 1053–4.
“Causal Efficacy of Representational Content in Spinoza.” History of Philosophy Quarterly 2010, 27 (1): 17–34.
“Spinoza’s Ontology.” – The Cambridge Companion to Spinoza’s Ethics, 56–78. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
(With Juhani Pietarinen.) “Introduction.” – J. Pietarinen & V. Viljanen (eds.), The World as Active Power, 1–10. Leiden: Brill, 2009.
“Spinoza’s Actualist Model of Power.” – J. Pietarinen & V. Viljanen (eds.), The World as Active Power, 213–28. Leiden: Brill, 2009.
(With Arto Repo.) “Leibniz on Force, Activity, and Passivity.” – J. Pietarinen & V. Viljanen (eds.), The World as Active Power, 229–50. Leiden: Brill, 2009.
“Schopenhauer’s Twofold Dynamism.” – J. Pietarinen & V. Viljanen (eds.), The World as Active Power, 305–30. Leiden: Brill, 2009.
“On the Derivation and Meaning of Spinoza’s Conatus Doctrine.” – D. Garber & S. Nadler (eds.), Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy, Volume IV, 89–112. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
“Spinoza’s Essentialist Model of Causation.” Inquiry 2008, 51 (4): 412–37.
“Field Metaphysic, Power, and Individuation in Spinoza.” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 2007, 37 (3): 393–418.
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