Justin Steinberg
Professor
Philosophy
Location: 3315 Boylan Hall
Phone: 718.951.5000 x3231
Fax: 718.951.4675
Email:
Justin Steinberg has been at Brooklyn College since 2008
Education:
Ph.D., Boston University - 2007 (Philosophy)
B.A., College of Wooster - 1999 (Philosophy)
Areas of Expertise:
Steinberg works on various aspects of Benedict de Spinoza's philosophy, while also maintaining interests in moral psychology, political philosophy, and normative ethics. He has written two books: Spinoza's Political Psychology (Cambridge, 2018) and Spinoza (with V. Viljanen) (Polity, 2020). He is currently editing a collection of essays on humility and is co-editor (with Karolina Hübner) of The Cambridge Spinoza Lexicon. See https://www.justinsteinberg.net/
Books and Publications
"Desire," "Liberty (Political)," and "Theologico-Political Treatise" in The Cambridge Spinoza Lexicon, eds Karolina Hübner and Justin Steinberg. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2023
"Enthusiasm, Superstition, and the Radical Enlightenment from Hobbes to Hume" in The History and Philosophy of Fanaticism, ed. Paul Katsafanas (Routledge). (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2023
"Humility as a Philosophical Concept: an Introduction," in Humility: A History (Oxford Philosophical Concepts), ed. Justin Steinberg (Oxford). (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2023
"Solomon," in The Bloomsbury Companion to Spinoza, second edition, eds. Wiep van Bunge, Henri Krop, Piet Steenbakkers, and Jeroen van de Ven (Bloombury). (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2023
"The Affirmative Mind: Spinoza on Striving under the Attribute of Thought," Ergo. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2023
Humility: A History (Oxford Philosophical Concepts), ed. Justin Steinberg (Oxford). (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2023
The Cambridge Spinoza Lexicon, eds Karolina Hübner and Justin Steinberg. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2023
Susan James, Spinoza on Learning to Live Together (Oxford University Press), Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2023
"Spinoza's Dynamic Theory of Mind in the 21st Century," Journal of Spinoza Studies, 1.1, 111 - 120. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2022
Sandra Field, Potentia (Oxford University Press). Journal of the History of Philosophy 60(2), 343 - 345. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2022
" 'Stop Being So Judgmental!': A Spinozist Model of Personal Tolerance," in The Palgrave Handbook of Toleration , ed. Mitja Sardoc (Palgrave Press), 1 - 17. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2021
"Striving, Happiness, and the Good: Spinoza as Follower and Critic of Hobbes," in A Blackwell Companion to Hobbes, ed. Marcus Adams (Wiley-Blackwell Press), 431 - 447. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2021
"Politics as a Model of Pedagogy in Spinoza," Ethics and Education, Vol. 15(2), 158 - 172. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2020
"Spinoza on Security and the Value of Hope," in critical exchange, "Spinoza: Thoughts on Hope in our Political Present," ed. Moira Gatens, Contemporary Political Theory (online at: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41296-020-00406-4) (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2020
Spinoza (with Valtteri Viljanen). Polity Press. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2020
"Spinoza on Civil Agreement and Bodies Politic," in Spinoza and Relational Autonomy: Being With Others, eds. Aurelia Armstrong, Keith Green, and Andrea Sangiacomo (Edinburgh University Press), 132 - 148. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2019
"Spinoza's Political Philosophy," Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Ed. Edward N. Zalta. Available online at: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/spinoza-political/. Substantial revision (originally published in 2008) (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2019
"Spinoza and Political Absolutism," in Spinoza's Political Treatise: New Assessments, eds. Hasana Sharp and Yitzhak Melamed (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 175 - 189 (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2018
"Two Puzzles Concerning Spinoza's Conception of Belief," European Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 26(1), 261 - 282. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2018
Spinoza's Political Psychology: The Taming of Fortune and Fear, Cambridge University Press: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/spinozas-political-psychology/EC554CBCF5433B743863D34D73300E8c (Books and Publications: Book (Authored)) 2018
"Affect, Desire, and Judgement in Spinoza's Account of Motivation," British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Vol. 24(1), 67 - 87. Selected as runner-up for Rogers Prize (best article of 2016 in BJHP). (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2016
Review of Yitzhak Y. Melamed (ed.), The Young Spinoza: A Metaphysician in the Making (Oxford University Press), Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. Available online at: https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/60886-the-young-spinoza-a-metaphysician-in-the-making/ (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2015
"An Epistemic Case for Empathy," Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 95, 47 - 71. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2014
"Following a Recta Ratio Vivendi: The Practical Utility of Spinoza's Dictates of Reason," in The Ethics of Spinoza's Ethics. Eds. Matthew Kisner and Andrew Youpa (Oxford University Press), 178 - 196. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2014
"Imitation, Representation, and Humanity in Spinoza's Ethics," Journal of the History of Philosophy, Vol. 51(3), 383 - 407. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2013
"Spinoza on Human Purposiveness and Mental Causation," Logical Analysis and the History of Philosophy, Special Volume on Teleology, vol. 14, 51 - 70. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2011
Review of Spinoza, by Michael Della Rocca (New York: Routledge). Mind 120.479: 852-56. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2011
Review of Matthew Kisner, Spinoza on Human Freedom (Cambridge University Press), Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. Available online at: http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/25623-spinoza-on-human-freedom-reason-autonomy-and-the-good-life/. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2011
"Benedict Spinoza: Epistemic Democrat," History of Philosophy Quarterly 27.2: 145-64. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2010
"Spinoza's Curious Defense of Toleration," Spinoza's 'Theological-Political Treatise': A Critical Guide. Eds. Yitzhak Melamed and Michael Rosenthal. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2010
"Spinoza on Civil Liberation," Journal of the History of Philosophy 47.1: 35-58. Awarded best contribution to the Articles section of the Journal of the History of Philosophy for 2009. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2009
"On Being Sui Iuris: Spinoza and the Republican Idea of Liberty," History of European Ideas 34.3: 239-49. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2008
Review of Spinoza's Book of Life: Freedom and Redemption in the Ethics, by Steven B. Smith. History of Political Thought 27.3. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2006
