Steven Nadler
American academic and philosopher (born 1958) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Steven Mitchell Nadler[1] (born November 11, 1958) is an American 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]
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Born | Steven Mitchell Nadler (1958-11-11) November 11, 1958 (age 65) |
Nationality | American |
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Jane Carole Bernstein
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Children | 2 |
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Thesis | Arnauld's Theory of Perception: A Study in the Cartesian Philosophy of Ideas (1986) |
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Institutions | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
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Nadler has written extensively on Spinoza, Descartes and Cartesianism, and Leibniz, and engaged with medieval and early modern Jewish philosophy.[2]