Steven Barbone is Associate Professor and Graduate Advisor in the Department of Philosophy at San Diego State University. He has published many scholarly articles on Spinoza. With Lee Rice, he is the co-editor of Spinoza’s Letters, Principles of Cartesian Philosophy, and Political Treatise, all published by Hackett. With Michael Bruce, he is also the editor of Just the Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Arguments in Western Philosophy (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011).
Laurent Bove is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the Université de Picardie Jules Verne in Amiens. His publications include an edition of Spinoza’s Traité politique, translated by Émile Saisset (Paris: Livre de Poche, 2002), La stratégie du conatus: Affirmation et résistance chez Spinoza (Paris: Vrin, 1996), and, more recently, Albert Camus: De la transfiguration. Pour une experimentation vitale de l’immanence (Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2014).
Edwin Curley is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is best known for his influential work on Spinoza. He published the first volume of his edition of Spinoza’s Collected Works with Princeton University Press in 1985 and the second volume in 2016. He has written two books on Spinoza, Spinoza’s Metaphysics (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1969) and Behind the Geometrical Method (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988). He has also written on a wide variety of other topics in Early Modern philosophy. Notable here are his Descartes Against the Skeptics (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1978) and his edition of Hobbes’s Leviathan (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1994). With Pierre-François Moreau, he is co-editor of Spinoza: Issues and Directions—The Proceedings of the Spinoza Chicago Conference (Leiden: Brill, 1990). He is a past president of the American Philosophical Association, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a recipient of fellowships from the NEH, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Humanities Center.
Valérie Debuiche is Associate Professor at the Université d’Aix-Marseille, where she is a Member of the Research Laboratory Centre Gilles Gaston Granger (UMR 7304). Her articles on Leibniz, Pascal, and other figures in Early Modern philosophy have appeared in the Journal of the History of Philosophy and other academic journals. Currently, she is working on the Leibniz manuscripts on geometry within the framework of the MATHESIS project of the National Research Agency (ANR). Recently, she published Leibniz: Un philosophe savant (Paris: Ellipses, 2017).
Michael Della Rocca is Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. He is best known for his many influential publications on Spinoza’s metaphysical rationalism and the Principle of Sufficient Reason. He has written two books on Spinoza, Representation and the Mind-Body Problem in Spinoza (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996) and Spinoza (New York: Routledge, 2008). He is also editor of the recent Oxford Handbook of Spinoza (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017). Currently, he is at work on a book project entitled The Parmenidean Ascent.
Simon B. Duffy is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Yale-NUS College in Singapore. He is the author of Deleuze and the History of Mathematics: In Defense of the New (London: Bloomsbury, 2013) and The Logic of Expression: Quality, Quantity and Intensity in Spinoza, Hegel, and Deleuze (New York: Routledge, 2006). His work has also been published a variety of academic journals, such as the Intellectual History, the Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, and Paragraph: A Journal of Modern Critical Theory. He has translated a number of Gilles Deleuze’s Seminars on Spinoza.
Daniel Garber is A. Watson J. Armour III University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University. Daniel Garber’s influential work includes many book chapters and papers on Early Modern philosophy, along with his two books on Descartes, Descartes’ Metaphysical Physics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992) and Descartes Embodied: Reading Cartesian Philosophy Through Cartesian Science (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), his book on Leibniz, Leibniz: Body, Substance, Monad (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), and, with co-editor Michael Ayers, the two-volume Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998). Currently, he is at work on a book project entitled Novatores: Negotiating Novelty in Early Modern Philosophy.
Pascale Gillot is Associate Professor at the Université François Rabelais de Tours and Member of the Research Laboratory ICD (EA 6297). Her publications include Althusser et la psychanalyse (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2009) and various papers on Spinoza’s philosophy of mind. With Pierre Cassou-Noguès, she is co-editor of Le Concept, le sujet et la science: Cavaillès, Canguilhem, Foucault (Paris: Vrin, 2009) and with Danielle Lorenzini, she is co-editor of Foucault-Wittgenstein: subjectivité, politique, éthique (Paris: CNRS Éditions, 2016).
Céline Hervet is Associate Professor of Aesthetics and Philosophy at the Université de Picardie Jules Verne in Amiens and Member of the Research Laboratory CRAL (UMR 8566). Her work includes her book on Spinoza, De l’imagination à l’entendement: La puissance du langage chez Spinoza (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2012), as well as other book chapters on Early Modern philosophy. Currently, she is at work on a collected volume of studies on the aesthetics of sound, tentatively entitled Les pouvoirs du son.
Jonathan Israel is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and Fellow of the British Academy. He is best known for his influential work on the intellectual history of the Enlightenment. His many publications include his book, The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall, 1477–1806 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), as well as his celebrated series of books on the intellectual history of the Radical Enlightenment, Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650–1750, Enlightenment Contested: Philosophy, Modernity, and the Emancipation of Man 1670–1752, and Democratic Enlightenment: Philosophy, Revolution, and Human Rights 1750–1790, all published by Oxford University Press. He is also the editor of Spinoza’s Theological-Political Treatise, which he translated with Michael Silverthorne (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007). Recently, he published The Expanding Blaze: How the American Revolution Ignited the World, 1775–1848 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017). Currently, he is preparing a fourth volume for the Radical Enlightenment series.
Chantal Jaquet is Professor of Philosophy at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and Director of the Research Laboratory HIPHIMO (EA 1451). Her publications include various works on Early Modern philosophy and on Spinoza, such as Sub specie aeternitatis: Étude des concepts de temps, durée et éternité chez Spinoza (Paris: Éditions Kimé, 1997) and L’unité du corps et de l’esprit: affects, actions et passions chez Spinoza (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2004), recently translated into English as The Unity of Body and Mind: Affects, Actions, and Passions by Tatiana Reznichenko (Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 2018). She has also published Philosophie de l’odorat (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2010), Les Transclasses ou la Non-Reproduction (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2014), and Le Désir (Paris: Éditions du Retour, 2017).
Mogens Lærke is Senior Researcher at the CNRS, Member of the Research Laboratory IHRIM (UMR 5317) at the ENS-Lyon, and Secretary of the British Society for the History of Philosophy. His publications include his many papers on Early Modern philosophy as well his two books on Leibniz, Leibniz lecteur de Spinoza: La genèse d’une opposition complèxe (Paris: Honoré Champion, 2008) and Les Lumières de Leibniz: Controverses avec Huet, Bayle, Régis et More (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2015). With Raphaële Andrault and Pierre-François Moreau, he is co-editor of Spinoza/Leibniz: Rencontres, controverses, recéptions (Paris: Presses Universitaires Paris-Sorbonne, 2014), and with Eric Schliesser and Justin E. H. Smith, he is co-editor of Philosophy and Its History: Aims and Methods in the Study of Early Modern Philosophy (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013). Recently, he co-edited with Christian Leduc and David Rabouin Leibniz: Lectures et commentaires (Paris: Vrin, 2017).
Jacqueline Lagrée is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the Université de Rennes 1. Her publications include many articles and books on Early Modern philosophy, such as La raison ardente: Religion naturelle et raison au XVIIe siècle (Paris: Vrin, 1991), Spinoza et le débat religieux (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2004), Le néostoïcisme (Paris: Vrin, 2010), and translations of Herbert de Cherbury, Johannes Clauberg, and Lodewijk Meyer. With Pierre-François Moreau, she is co-translator of Spinoza’s Traité Théologico-Politique for the Œuvres of Spinoza at the Presses Universitaires de France (1999).
Martin Lin is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. His many papers on Spinoza, Leibniz, metaphysics, and the philosophy of mind have appeared in academic journals such as the Journal of the History of Philosophy, Noûs, and the Philosophical Review. He is currently preparing a book on Spinoza for publication with Oxford University Press, entitled Being and Reason: An Essay on Spinoza’s Metaphysics.
Yitzhak Y. Melamed is Charlotte Bloomberg Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. His publications include many book chapters and papers on Early Modern philosophy as well as his book on Spinoza, Spinoza’s Metaphysics: Substance and Thought (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013). With Michael A. Rosenthal, he is co-editor of Spinoza’s Theological-Political Treatise: A Critical Guide (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), and with Eckhart Förster, he is co-editor of Spinoza and German Idealism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012). He is also editor of The Young Spinoza: A Metaphysician in the Making (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015), Eternity: A History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016), and Spinoza’s Ethics: A Critical Guide (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017). He is a past recipient of Fulbright, Mellon, and American Academy for Jewish Research fellowships, and has been awarded the ACLS Burkhardt, Humboldt, and NEH fellowships for a forthcoming book on Spinoza and German Idealism. In 2018, with co-editor Hasana Sharp, he published Spinoza’s Political Treatise: A Critical Guide with Cambridge University Press.
Pierre-François Moreau is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the ENS-Lyon and Founder of the Research Laboratory IHRIM (UMR 5317). He is best known for his influential work on Spinoza. He is editorial director of the Œuvres of Spinoza at the Presses Universitaires de France, for which he co-translated with Jacqueline Lagrée Spinoza’s Traité Théologico-Politique (1999). His publications include his books Spinoza: L’expérience et l’éternité (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1994) and Spinoza et le spinozisme, 4th edn (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2014). With Edwin Curley, he is co-editor of Spinoza: Issues and Directions—The Proceedings of the Spinoza Chicago Conference (Leiden: Brill, 1990). With Charles Ramond, he is co-editor of Lectures de Spinoza (Paris: Ellipses, 2006), and with Raphaële Andrault and Mogens Lærke, he is co-editor of Spinoza/Leibniz: Rencontres, controverses, réceptions (Paris: Presses Universitaires Paris-Sorbonne, 2014). Currently, he is at work with Piet Steenbakkers preparing Spinoza’s Éthique for the Œuvres Complètes.
Steven Nadler is William H. Hay II Professor of Philosophy and Evjue-Bascom Professor in Humanities at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is best known for his popular work on Spinoza. His publications include various papers on Early Modern philosophy in academic journals, his celebrated biography, Spinoza: A Life, now in its second edition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018 for the 2nd edn.), and many other books, such as The Best of All Possible Worlds: A Story of Philosophers, God, and Evil (New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2008), A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza’s Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011), and Rembrandt’s Jews (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003), which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Recently, with his son and graphic novelist Ben Nadler he published Heretics!: The Wondrous (and Dangerous) Beginnings of Modern Philosophy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017). He also recently served as chief editor of the Journal of the History of Philosophy.
Knox Peden is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Melbourne. His publications include his book Spinoza Contra Phenomenology: French Rationalism from Cavaillès to Deleuze (Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2014). His papers have appeared in academic journals such as the History of European Ideas and the Intellectual History Review, as well as with the Los Angeles Review of Books. Currently, he is at work on a book on Louis Althusser for Verso and will co-author, with Stephen Gaukroger, the volume on French Philosophy for Oxford University Press’ “Very Short Introductions” series.
Alison Peterman is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Rochester. Her many publications on Spinoza and on other Early Modern figures, like Margaret Cavendish, Descartes, and Newton, have appeared in academic collections and journals such as Philosophers’ Imprint, Synthèse, and The Leibniz Review.
Charles Ramond is Professor of Philosophy at the Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint Denis and Member of the Research Laboratory LLCP (EA 4008). His publications on Early Modern philosophy include several books on Spinoza, such as Qualité et quantité chez Spinoza (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1995), Spinoza et la pensée moderne: Constitutions de l’objectivité (Paris: Harmattan, 2000), Le Dictionnaire Spinoza (Paris: Ellipses, 2007), and Spinoza Contemporain (Paris: Harmattan, 2016). With Pierre-François Moreau, he is co-editor of Lectures de Spinoza (Paris: Ellipses, 2006). He is also translator of Spinoza’s Traité Politique for the Œuvres of Spinoza at the Presses Universitaires de France (2005). He has also written extensively on Badiou, Derrida, Girard, and other figures in contemporary French philosophy. He directs the Séminaire Spinoza à Paris 8. Currently, he is preparing a book on the philosophy of Jacques Rancière.
Michael A. Rosenthal is Professor of Philosophy and holds the Samuel and Althea Stroum Chair in Jewish Studies at the University of Washington. His publications include many book chapters and papers in Jewish studies and on Spinoza’s political philosophy. With Yitzhak Y. Melamed, he is co-editor of Spinoza’s Theological-Political Treatise: A Critical Guide (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010).
Pascal Sévérac is Associate Professor of Education and Philosophy at the Université Paris-Est Créteil and Member of the Research Laboratory LIS (EA 4395). His publications on Early Modern philosophy include his books Le devenir actif chez Spinoza (Paris: Honoré Champion, 2007) and Spinoza: Union et désunion (Paris: Vrin, 2011). Currently, he is at work on a book about Lev Vygotsky.
Hasana Sharp is Associate Professor of Philosophy at McGill University. Her publications include her book on Spinoza, Spinoza and the Politics of Renaturalization (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011), as well as many papers on Spinoza and the history of political philosophy published in academic journals such as the History of Philosophy Quarterly, Hypatia, and The Journal of the History of Philosophy. With Jason E. Smith, she is co-editor of Between Hegel and Spinoza: A Volume of Critical Essays (London: Continuum, 2012), and with Chloë Taylor, she is co-editor of Feminist Philosophies of Life (Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016). In 2018, with co-editor Yitzhak Y. Melamed, she published Spinoza’s Political Treatise: A Critical Guide with Cambridge University Press.
Jack Stetter is Lecturer (“ATER”), formerly Research and Teaching Fellow, and PhD candidate in Philosophy at the Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint Denis with the Research Laboratory LLCP (EA 4008). His dissertation is entitled Spinoza’s Accounts of Causation, Necessity, and Reason: Debates in Interpretation. His previous publications include papers on Deleuze’s metaphilosophy and Spinoza’s Political Treatise. With Charles Ramond, he is assistant organizer of the Séminaire Spinoza à Paris 8.
Ariel Suhamy is Secretary of the Review La Vie des Idées at the Collège de France. He has published several book chapters on Spinoza, as well as Pas à pas avec Spinoza (Paris: Ellipses, 2011). With graphic artist Alia Daval, he is the author of Spinoza par les bêtes (Paris: Ollendorff & Desseins, 2008). Recently, he published Godescalc: Le moine du destin (Paris: Alma, 2016).
Lorenzo Vinciguerra is Professor of Aesthetics and Philosophy at the Université de Picardie Jules Verne in Amiens and Director of the Centre de Recherches en Arts et Esthétique (EA 4291). Among his many publications is his book on Spinoza, Spinoza et le signe. La genèse de l’imagination (Paris: Vrin, 2005). Currently, in partnership with the Fondation de la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, he is at work on a collective artistic, digital project on Spinoza’s Ethics entitled ETHICA: Du travail sans obstacle.