Michael Della Rocca

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Michael Della Rocca (born 1962)[citation needed] is Sterling Professor of Philosophy at Yale University and a specialist in early modern philosophy, especially Spinoza, and in metaphysics.

Education and career[edit]

Della Rocca earned his B.A. at Harvard University and his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley under the supervision of Benson Mates.[1] He joined the Yale faculty in 1991, and was promoted to Sterling Professor in 2021.[2] Among his doctoral students is Yitzhak Melamed.

Publications[edit]

Books[edit]

  • Representation and the Mind-Body Problem in Spinoza (Oxford University Press, 1996)
  • Spinoza (Routledge, 2008)
  • The Parmenidean Ascent (Oxford University Press, 2020)

References[edit]

  1. ^ https://www.skidmore.edu/perlow/michael-della-rocca.php
  2. ^ "Della Rocca named Sterling Professor of Philosophy". YaleNews. October 26, 2021.