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Don Garrett is Silver Professor of philosophy at New York University.[1] He is a specialist in the history of early modern philosophy, with a particular emphasis on the thought of Baruch Spinoza, David Hume, and Mary Shepherd.
Education and career[edit]
After graduating with a B.A. at the University of Utah in 1974, Garrett completed his Ph.D. in 1979 at Yale University with a dissertation entitled "Identity, Necessity, and the Mind-Body Problem". He subsequently took up teaching positions at Harvard (1979-82), the University of Utah (1982-1999), the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1999-2003), and finally moved to NYU in 2003.[2]
Philosophical work[edit]
Garrett is the author of various books and scholarly articles on the history of early modern philosophy, including Cognition and Commitment in Hume’s Philosophy (1997), Hume (2015), and Nature and Necessity in Spinoza’s Philosophy (2018). He edited The Cambridge Companion to Spinoza (1999) and as served as the co-editor of Hume Studies and as North American editor of Archiv fur Geschichte der Philosophie.
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