Steven Nadler


Steven M. Nadler is an American philosopher specializing in early modern philosophy. He is the William H. Hay II Professor of Philosophy and Evjue-Bascom Professor in Humanities, and Max and Frieda Weinstein-Bascom Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Education and career

Nadler received his PhD from Columbia University in 1986. He has taught at the University of Wisconsin–Madison since 1988, and has been a visiting professor of philosophy at Stanford University, the University of Chicago, and the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris.
In November, 2006, he presented at the symposium. In 2007, he held the Spinoza Chair at the University of Amsterdam.
From 2010–2015 he was the editor of the Journal of the History of Philosophy. In April, 2015, he was a Scholar in Residence at the American Academy in Rome.
In 2020 he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Philosophical work

His research focus has been devoted to the study of philosophy in the seventeenth century, including Descartes and Cartesian philosophy, Spinoza, and Leibniz. His research also includes antecedents of aspects of early modern thought in medieval Latin philosophy and medieval Jewish philosophy.

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