Can we, like Alexandre’s puppets, step outside the conditions that life has set for us? If we consider Baruch Spinoza’s understanding of determinism, we see that he compares the universe to a clock, ...

Feedback has found a contender for the 2025 Reverse Nominative Determinism gong: the scientific journal Intelligence Hang on, readers may be thinking. How did we get from a scientific journal ...

Melamed sought access to the synagogue to make a documentary about Spinoza, whom the Portuguese Jewish community of Amsterdam excommunicated in 1656 for writings that it deemed heretic.

“You have devoted your life to the study of Spinoza’s banned works and the development of his ideas,” Serfaty wrote to Yitzhak Melamed. (JTA) — More than 350 years after Baruch Spinoza was ...