Curriculum Vitae

Ph.D. in Philosophy, Harvard, 1975. Garber joined the Philosophy Department faculty at Princeton in 2002. He is also an Associate Member of both the Program in History of Science and the Politics Department. Garber's principal interests are the relations between philosophy, science, and society in the period of the Scientific Revolution. Garber is the author of Descartes' Metaphysical Physics (1992), Descartes Embodied (2001), and Leibniz: Body, Substance, Monad (2009), and is co-editor with Michael Ayers of the Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy (1998). He is currently working on a variety of topics, including Francis Bacon's views on experiment, scientific communication and the development of journal culture, and Spinoza's views on religion and rationality. In addition, he is the editor-in-chief of a new edition of the works of the seminal seventheenth-century thinker, Jacobus Fontialis.