Justin E. H. Smith

Justin E. H. Smith
Born	Justin Erik Halldór Smith (1972-07-30) July 30, 1972 Reno, Nevada, US
Nationality	American Canadian
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Academic background
Alma mater	University of California, Davis Columbia University
Academic work
Discipline	Philosophy
Sub discipline	Philosophy of science
Institutions	Miami University Concordia University University of Paris

Justin Erik Halldór Smith (aka Justin E. H. Smith) (born July 30, 1972, in Reno, Nevada) is an American-Canadian professor of history and philosophy of science at the University of Paris 7 - Denis Diderot. 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 is the author of several books and is also a sometime contributor to The New York Times, Harper's Magazine, n+1, Slate, and Art in America.

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

Since the fall of 2020, he has been publishing philosophical and critical essays on his Substack newsletter: Justin E.H. Smith's Hinternet.

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

Background and education

• 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

• The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, a Philosophy, a Warning, Princeton University Press (March 22, 2022) ISBN 9780691212326
• Irrationality: A History of the Dark Side of Reason, Princeton University Press (April, 2019) ISBN 9780691189666
• The Philosopher: A History in Six Types, Princeton University Press (May 7, 2016) ISBN 0691163278
• Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference: Race in Early Modern Philosophy, Princeton University Press (June 30, 2015) ISBN 0691153647
• Divine Machines: Leibniz and the Sciences of Life, Princeton University Press (May 1, 2011) ISBN 0691141789
• The Life Sciences in Early Modern Philosophy (ed., with Ohad Nachtomy), Oxford University Press (January 6, 2014) ISBN 0199987319
• The Problem of Animal Generation in Early Modern Philosophy (ed.), Cambridge University Press (May 22, 2006) ISBN 0521840775