Justin Smith-Ruiu

Justin Smith-Ruiu (formerly Justin E. H. Smith) (born July 30, 1972, in Reno, Nevada) is an American-Canadian professor of history and philosophy of science at the Université Paris Cité. His primary research interests include Leibniz, post-structuralism, early modern philosophy, history and philosophy of biology, classical Indian philosophy, the history and philosophy of anthropology.

Smith-Ruiu is the author of several books and is also a contributor to The New York Times, Harper's Magazine, n+1, Slate, and Art in America.

Smith-Ruiu is an editor-at-large of Cabinet Magazine.

Since the fall of 2020, he has been publishing philosophical and critical essays in his online newsletter, Justin Smith-Ruiu's Hinternet.

The main-belt asteroid 13585 Justinsmith is named after Smith-Ruiu.

Background and education

• 2023 Visiting professor of philosophy, Princeton University
• 2019–20 John and Constance Birkelund Fellow, Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, New York Public Library
• 2016–17 Émile Francqui Chair, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
• 2011 Visiting scholar in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
• 2007–08 Humboldt Foundation Research Fellow, Institut für Philosophie, Humboldt University of Berlin
• 2000 PhD in philosophy from Columbia University
• 1997–98 Doctoral Research on a DAAD Fellowship University of Münster
• 1994 BA with honors in philosophy and Russian at University of California, Davis

Bibliography

• Excerpted in Wired magazine.
• Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference: Race in Early Modern Philosophy, Princeton University Press (June 30, 2015)
• Divine Machines: Leibniz and the Sciences of Life, Princeton University Press (May 1, 2011)
• The Life Sciences in Early Modern Philosophy (ed., with Ohad Nachtomy), Oxford University Press (January 6, 2014)
• The Problem of Animal Generation in Early Modern Philosophy (ed.), Cambridge University Press (May 22, 2006)

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