Steven Nadler | |
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| Born | Steven Mitchell Nadler November 11, 1958 |
| Nationality | American |
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| Spouse |
Jane Carole Bernstein
(m. 1984) |
| Children | 2 |
| Academic background | |
| Education | |
| Thesis | Arnauld's Theory of Perception: A Study in the Cartesian Philosophy of Ideas (1986) |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
Steven Mitchell Nadler[1] (born November 11, 1958) is an American/Canadian academic and philosopher specializing in 17th-century philosophy. He is Vilas Research Professor and the William H. Hay II Professor of Philosophy, and was (from 2004–2009) Max and Frieda Weinstein-Bascom Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is also director of their Institute for Research in the Humanities.[2]
Nadler has written extensively on Spinoza, Descartes and Cartesianism, and Leibniz, and engaged with medieval and early modern Jewish philosophy.[2]