Steven Nadler

Steven Mitchell Nadler[1] (born November 11, 1958) is an American/Canadian academic and philosopher specializing in 17th-century philosophy.

[2] Nadler has written extensively on Spinoza, Descartes and Cartesianism, and Leibniz, and engaged with medieval and early modern Jewish philosophy.

[4] In November 2006, he presented at the Beyond Belief: Science, Religion, Reason and Survival symposium.

[8] In the same year, he was invited to sit on an advisory board at a symposium held by the Amsterdam Talmud Torah congregation to discuss the lifting of the cherem on 17th-century Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza, which had been imposed in 1656 on account of his views on the God of the Torah, which were condemned as heretical.

[9] In 2020 Nadler was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.