Daniel E. Garber

Scholar of early modern philosophy, studying relations among philosophy, science, and society during the Scientific Revolution. In addition to these larger themes, he has worked especially on Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, and Bacon. Trained in philosophy of science, work broadened to the interaction between emerging modern science and metaphysics in the early modern period. Scholar of Descartes and Leibniz; co-edited Cambridge History of the Seventeenth-Century Philosophy (1998) and Yale Leibniz, a translation of Leibniz's most complex works into English for the first time. Founding co-editor of journal, Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy. Leader of National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institutes and Seminars, participant in numerous international research projects, and as the clearing-house for information about activities in early modern philosophy throughout the world.