Ph.D. Université Paris 8. Jack Stetter works primarily on seventeenth-century philosophy, with a special emphasis on Spinoza and Spinoza's enduring influence. Recent publications include the edited volume Spinoza in Twenty-First Century American and French Philosophy (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019) and papers in the Journal of Modern Philosophy, Modern Judaism, Crisis and Critique, and Revista Seiscentos. With Stephen Howard (KU Leuven) he is editor of The Edinburgh Critical History of Early Modern and Enlightenment Philosophy (forthcoming, 2023).
Recent Publications
Edited Volume: Spinoza in Twenty-First-Century American and French Philosophy, ed. Jack Stetter and Charles Ramond, Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.
“François Lamy and his Cartesian Refutation of Spinoza’s Ethics”. Journal of Modern Philosophy, 2019 (http://doi.org/10.32881/jomp.44).
“Spinoza and Judaism in the French Context: The Case of Milner’s Le sage trompeur”. Modern Judaism, 2020 (http://doi.org/10.1093/mj/kjaa004).
“Spinoza”. Springer Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences, ed. Dana Jalobeanu and Charles T. Wolfe, 2021 (https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20791-9_576-2).
"Spinoza and Popular Philosophy”. Blackwell Companion to Spinoza, ed. Yitzhak Y. Melamed, 2021 (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781119538349.ch53).
"Un homme ivre d'immanence: Deleuze's Spinoza and immanence". Crisis and Critique, 2021 (https://www.crisiscritique.org/uploads/09-07-2021/60e/83d/a7c/60e83da7cd...).
“Spinoza’s Argument for Substance Monism”. Revista Seiscentos, 2021 (https://revistas.ufrj.br/index.php/seiscentos/issue/view/1813).
Degrees
Ph.D. Université de Paris VIII Vincennes Saint-Denis, B.A. Cornell University
Classes Taught
Philosophy of the Human Person
Making Moral Decisions
Early Modern Philosophy
Nineteenth-Century Philosophy
The Holocaust
Philosophy of Play
Introduction to Continental Philosophy
Areas of Expertise
Early Modern Philosophy