""not just learning more about philosophy through studying philosophy but, moreover, to learn more about the world through studying philosophy." I admit that I teared up. I take great pride in my teaching, and I work to improve my classes every semester; I have spent two summers studying pedagogy to become a better communicator and a more mindful practitioner of the art of sharing knowledge."
"All too often he is seen as an "exception" or someone who breaks the historical continuum of early modern Europe-I like to highlight his connection with the milieu that surrounded him. Which book has changed your life? In what ways? Besides that, I have a long-term project on the political dimension of the epistemology of a few philosophers from the seventeenth century."
Emanuele Costa is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University, specializing in early modern philosophy and metaphysics. He published the monograph The Structure of Spinoza's World (Oxford University Press, 2025). He emphasizes excellence in teaching, receiving a deeply appreciative graduate evaluation and investing summers studying pedagogy to improve communication and classroom practice. He is writing a Cambridge Elements on Spinoza's reception of scholastic metaphysics and aims to show Spinoza's continuity with his intellectual milieu. He is developing a comparative project on the political dimension of seventeenth-century epistemology, focused on building epistemic practices that foster political stability despite deep disagreement.
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