Yitzhak Y. Melamed is the Charlotte Bloomberg Professor of Philosophy at The Johns Hopkins University. He is the co-editor of Spinoza's 'Theological-Political Treatise': A Critical Guide (Cambridge, 2010) and of Spinoza and German Idealism (Cambridge, 2012).

• Introduction Yitzhak Y. Melamed; 1. The indiscernability of identicals and the transitivity of identity in Spinoza's logic of the attributes Don Garrett; 2. Spinoza and Maimonides on teleology and anthropocentrism Warren Zev Harvey; 3. Two puzzles about thought and identity in Spinoza John Morrison; 4. Spinoza and the mark of the mental Martin Lin; 5. The 'physical' interlude Alison Peterman; 6. The causes of our belief in free will: Spinoza on necessary, 'innate', yet false, cognition Yitzhak Melamed; 7. Conatus John Carriero; 8. Scientia intuitiva in the Ethics Kristin Primus; 9. Causa conscientiae' in Spinoza's Ethics Lia Levy; 10. Spinoza on the association of affects and the workings of the human mind Lisa Shapiro; 11. The terminology of the affects in Ethics parts three through five Pina Totaro; 12. Moral realism in Spinoza's Ethics Colin Marshall; 13. Spinoza and the metaphysics of perfection Samuel Newlands; 14. The free man and the free market: ethics, politics, and economics in Spinoza's Ethics IV Beth Lord; 15. Spinoza and the power of reason Michael LeBuffe.

'This new Cambridge Critical Guide to Spinoza's Ethics offers an extensive, thought-provoking, and up-to-date state of the scholarly conversation that surrounds one of Spinoza's most studied masterpieces.' Journal of the History of Philosophy