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Justin Erik Halldór SMITH

Paris Diderot University (Paris 7) (UP7, Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7, Université de Paris), Paris, France

Email: jehsmith@gmail.com

Personal URL: www.jehsmith.com

Scopus Author ID: 55286954500

PhD, Professor of philosophy in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Member of SPHERE Research Laboratory, UP7

Research interests:

Leibniz, Early Modern Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, History and Philosophy of Biology, Classical Indian Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy, Aesthetics, History and Philosophy of Anthropology, Philosophy of Race, Environmental Philosophy, Philosophy of Cosmology

Membership in the editorial boards:

  • Springer book series “Why the Sciences of the Ancient World Matter”, editorial board member
  • “Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences”, Springer, editorial board member
  • “History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences”, editorial board member
  • “Journal of Early Modern Studies”, advisory board member

Publications in the subject area of the journal “Voprosy istorii estestvoznaniia i tekhniki” [“Studies in the History of Science and Technology”]:

  • Hegel, China, and the 19th century europeanization of philosophy, Journal of Chinese Philosophy , 2021, vol. 45, no. 1-2, pp. 18-37.
  • Irrationality: A History of the Dark Side of Reason. Princeton University Press, 2019.
  • The Ibis and the Crocodile: Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign and Evolutionary, Theory in France, 1801-1835, Republic of Letters , 2018.
  • Between Language, Music, and Sound: Birdsong as a Philosophical Problem from Aristotle to Kant, in: Stephanie Buchenau and Roberto Lo Presti (eds.), Human and Animal Perception in the 17th and 18th Centuries . University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017.
  • What Is a World? Deception, Possibility, and Fiction from Cervantes to Descartes, Journal of Early Modern Studies, 2017, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 9-27.
  • The Art of Molting, RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics , 2016/2017, vol. 67/68, pp. 1-9.
  • The Philosopher: A History in Six Types . Princeton University Press, 2016. 272 p.
  • Hegel, China, and the 19th-Century Europeanization of Philosophy, in: Eric S. Nelson (ed.), Special Issue of the Journal of Chinese Philosophy on Hegel and China , 2016.
  • Steno’s Palaeontology: Thinking from Traces, in: Mogens Laerke and Troels Kardel (eds.), Steno and Philosophy , Brill Studies in Intellectual History. Leiden: Brill, 2016.
  • Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference: Race in Early Modern Philosophy . Princeton University Press, 2015.
  • Stahl and Leibniz on the Role of the Soul in the Body, in: Arnaud Pelletier (ed.), Leibniz and the Aspects of Reality . Studia Leibnitiana Sonderhefte , 45, Franz Steiner Verlag, 2015, pp. 111-122.
  • Tradition, Culture, and the Problem of Inclusion in Philosophy, Comparative Philosophy , 2015, vol. 6, no. 2.
  • Medical Eudaimonism in Early Modern Philosophy, in: Peter Distelzweig (Ed.), Early Modern Medicine and Natural Philosophy . Springer, 2015.
  • Leibniz and Diderot on the Unity of the Human Species, in: Leibniz and Diderot , ed. Mitia Rioux-Beaulne and Christian Leduc. Paris: Vrin, 2014.
  • Natives, Nature, and Natural Slavery, Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal , 2014, vol. 35, no. 1-2, pp. 81-100.

Participation in grants:

  • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada-funded Project “Forms of Conversion: Religious, Cultural, and Cognitive Transformation in Early Modern Europe and Its Worlds” (2013-2018), collaborator
  • European Research Commission Advanced Grant project “Science in the Ancient World”, directed by Karine Chemla, Université Paris Diderot – Paris 7 (2011-2016), collaborator

Contact information:

Bâtiment Condorcet - Case 7019, 75025 Paris - Cedex 13 - France

+33 7 78 88 20 46 (France)

Email:

jehsmith@gmail.com

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