For full functionality of this site it is necessary to enable JavaScript. Here are the instructions how to enable JavaScript in your web browser. Justin Steinberg Position: Associate Professor Campus Affiliation: Brooklyn College Degrees/Diplomas: Ph.D. Boston University Research Interests: Modern Philosophy, Moral Psychology, Political Philosophy, Ethics, Renaissance Philosophy Graduate Center Courses Recently Taught: Spinoza (Spring 2017) Representative Publications: Spinoza's Political Psychology: The Taming of Fortune and Fear, Cambridge University Press. (Forthcoming) “Two Puzzles Concerning Spinoza’s Conception of Belief,” European Journal of Philosophy (2017). “Affect, Desire, and Judgement in Spinoza’s Account of Motivation,” British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Vol. 24.1 (2016), 67 – 87. “Following a Recta Ratio Vivendi: The Practical Utility of Spinoza’s Dictates of Reason,” in Essays on Spinoza’s Ethical Theory, eds. Matthew Kisner and Andrew Youpa (Oxford University Press, 2014), 178 – 196. “An Epistemic Case for Empathy,” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 95 (2014), 47 – 71. “Spinoza’s Political Philosophy,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. Edward N. Zalta (2013) “Imitation, Representation, and Humanity in Spinoza’s Ethics,” Journal of the History of Philosophy, Vol. 51.3 (2013), 383 – 407. “Spinoza’s Curious Defense of Toleration,” in Spinoza’s ‘Theological-Political Treatise’: A Critical Guide, eds. Yitzhak Melamed and Michael Rosenthal (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), 210 – 230. “Benedict Spinoza: Epistemic Democrat,” History of Philosophy Quarterly, Vol. 27.2 (2010), 145 –164. “Spinoza on Civil Liberation,” Journal of the History of Philosophy, Vol. 47.1 (2009), 35-58.