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Michael LeBuffe

 

Education

Ph.D., Philosophy, University of California, San Diego 2000
A.B., Philosophy, Princeton University, 1991 

Areas of Interest

Early Modern Philosophy
Moral Philosophy

 

Michael LeBuffe writes primarily on the moral theories of Hobbes and Spinoza.  Both in the history of philosophy and in contemporary moral theory, he is concerned with the ways in which facts about psychology and human knowledge constrain or otherwise inform theories of value. Recent work includes:

• From Bondage to Freedom: Spinoza on Human Excellence (Oxford, 2010)
• “The Anatomy of the Passions,” in theThe Cambridge Companion to Spinoza’s Ethics (Cambridge, 2009)
• “Spinozistic Perfectionism,” History of Philosophy Quarterly (2010)
• “Change and the Eternal Part of the Mind in Spinoza,” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly (2010)
• “Theories about Consciousness in Spinoza’s Ethics,” Philosophical Review (2010)