Steven Nadler
Steven M. Nadler (born November 11, 1958) is an American academic and philosopher specializing in early modern philosophy. He is Vilas Research Professor and the William H. Hay II Professor of Philosophy, and (from 2004–2009) Max and Frieda Weinstein-Bascom Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Education and career. Nadler received his B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis in 1980 and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1981 and 1986, respectively. 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, the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris, the École normale supérieure-Paris, and the University of Amsterdam. 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. Also in 2015 he was invited to sit on an advisory board at a symposium held by the Amsterdam Talmud Torah congregation to discuss the  lifting of the "cherem" on 17th-century Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza, which had been imposed in 1656 on account of his views on the God of the Torah, which were condemned as heretical. Recognition. 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 (especially with respect to Spinoza) medieval Jewish philosophy. Steven Nadler