Professor of Philosophy
Aaron Garrett is a historian of philosophy specializing in the history of moral and political philosophy and the history of modern moral philosophy in general. He has written monographs on Spinoza’s method (Cambridge University Press, 2003) and Berkeley, the article “Human Nature” in the Cambridge History of Eighteenth Century of Philosophy, and is the editor of the Routledge Handbook of Eighteenth Century Philosophy. Current projects include monographs on Joseph Butler and on the attitudes of early modern moral and political philosophers towards groups marginalized (women, non-Europeans, and animals) provisionally entitled “Duties towards Others.”