Biography:Daniel Garber (philosopher)

Short description: American philosopher

Daniel Garber
Born	1949
Alma mater	Harvard University
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Analytic philosophy
Institutions	University of Chicago, Princeton University
Thesis	(1975)
Doctoral advisors	Roderick Firth, Hilary Putnam
Main interests	History of early modern philosophy and science, Descartes, Leibniz
Influences Hilary Putnam

Daniel Garber (born 1949) is an American philosopher. He is the A. Watson Armour, III, University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University. He is a specialist in the history of early modern philosophy and science.

Education and career

Garber earned all his degrees from Harvard University including his Ph.D. in philosophy in 1975 under the direction of Roderick Firth and Hilary Putnam. He taught at the University of Chicago from 1975 until joining the Princeton faculty in 2002.

He is an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

Selected publications

Authored books

• Descartes's Metaphysical Physics (University of Chicago Press, 1992).
• Descartes Embodied: Reading Cartesian Philosophy through Cartesian Science (Cambridge University Press, 2001).
• Leibniz: Body, Substance, Monad (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009).

Edited books

• Leibniz: Philosophical Essays (translated and edited with Roger Ariew) (Hackett Press, 1989).
• The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy (with Michael R. Ayers) (Cambridge University Press, 1998).
• Kant and the Early Moderns (with Béatrice Longuenesse) (Princeton University Press, 2008).
• The Mechanization of Natural Philosophy (with Sophie Roux) (Dordrecht: Spring, 2013).

External links

• Daniel Garber's homepage.
• A discussion with Michael Della Rocca about the methodology of history of philosophy.