A short introduction
Prof. Della Rocca is Sterling Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, a specialist in early modern philosophy, especially Spinoza, and in metaphysics. He earned his B.A. at Harvard University and his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley, under the supervision of Benson Mates. He joined the Yale faculty in 1991 and was promoted to Sterling Professor in 2021. Among his doctoral students is Yitzhak Melamed.Publications:
Bertrand Russell’s failure to refute Idealism (The Return of Idealism)
While history suggests that the founder of analytical philosophy, Bertrand Russell, won the fight against the idealists led by F.H. Bradley, Yale philosopher Prof. Michael Della Rocca argues that Russell failed to even address Bradley’s central argument. Ignoring Bradley’s timeless message puts in serious jeopardy not only our basic understanding of ethics, but also the ultimate nature of reality itself.
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