Samuel Newlands
William J. and Dorothy K. O'Neill Collegiate Professor in Philosophy
574-631-2866
snewlands@nd.edu
209 Malloy Hall
by appointment
Education
Ph.D. Yale University
Research Interest
Early Modern Philosophy, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Religion
Most of my philosophical writing has centered on three overlapping areas: early modern philosophy, metaphysics, and philosophy of religion. I am currently working on several book-length projects: Early Moderns and the Metaphysics of Evil (monograph about the problem of evil); No Cheating! A Spinozistic Reading of Early Modern Metaphysics (monograph on early modern metaphysics); and Necessity: A Conceptual History (co-edited volume on the history of modal concepts). I have also recently become interested in forms of idealism and so-called narrative conceptions of the self. I also serve as Director of the Center for Philosophy of Religion at Notre Dame, and I have been a principle investigator for several large research initiatives.
For more information about my interests and projects, please visit http://samnewlands.net
Representative Publications
- Reconceiving Spinoza (OUP, forthcoming)
- "Backing Into Spinozism" (Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2016)
- "Leibniz on Privations, Limitations, and the Metaphysics of Evil" (Journal of the History of Philosophy, 2014)
- "Leibniz on the Ground of Possibility" (The Philosophical Review, 2013)
- "Another Kind of Spinozistic Monism" (Noûs, 2010)
- "The Harmony of Spinoza and Leibniz" (Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2010)