DON GARRETT Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence

Don Garrett is on leave during the 2003-2004 academic year.  He specializes in the history of modern philosophy. He is the author of Cognition and Commitment in Hume's Philosophy (1997); the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Spinoza (1996); and the co-editor (with Edward Barbanell) of The Encyclopedia of Empiricism (1998). He is currently editing Early Modern Philosophy for Oxford University Press. Other recent publications include: "Ethics Ip5: Shared Attributes and the Basis of Spinoza's Monism," in Central Themes in Early Modern Philosophy, ed. by Cover and Kulstad (1990); "Truth, Method, and Correspondence in Spinoza and Leibniz," Studia Spinozana (1990); and "'A Free Man Always Acts Honestly, Not Deceptively':  Freedom and the Good in Spinoza's Ethics," in Spinoza:  Issues and Directions, ed. by Curley and Moreau (Brill, 1990); "Spinoza's Necessitarianism," in God and Nature: Spinoza's Metaphysics, ed. by Yovel (1991); "The Representation of Causation and Hume's Two Definitions of Cause," Noûs  (1993); "Spinoza's Theory of Metaphysical Individuation," in Individuation in Early Modern Philosophy, ed. by Gracia and Barber (1994); "Spinoza's Ethical Theory," in The Cambridge Companion to Spinoza, ed. by Garrett (1996); "Teleological Explanation in Spinoza and Early Modern Rationalism," in New Essays on the Rationalists, ed. by Huenemann and Gennaro (1998). [Complete CV]

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email: don_garrett@unc.edu