Faculty

Jack Stetter

Assistant Professor

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BIO

Ph.D. Philosophy Université Paris 8, 2019. Joined the Philosophy Department at USF in 2026. His research focuses on early modern philosophy, particularly 17th-C. philosophy and Baruch Spinoza. He is also especially interested in figures and topics in 19th- and 20th-C. European philosophy. With Stephen Howard, Stetter is co-editor of The Edinburgh Critical History of Early Modern and Enlightenment Philosophy (Edinburgh UP, 2025). With Charles Ramond, he is co-editor of Spinoza in Twenty-First Century American and French Philosophy (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019). Stetter is an incoming member of the APA Committee on International Cooperation, chercheur associé of the LLCP (Paris 8), and vice president of the newly founded Society for French and Francophone Philosophy. Prior to coming to USF, Stetter was a visiting assistant professor at Loyola University New Orleans, a Solmsen Fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities (University of Wisconsin - Madison), and a postdoctoral researcher at Louisiana State University. He is currently at work on a book, Spinoza and War, and on papers on connected topics such as Spinoza's conception of states as minds, Hegel's theory of war, and Coleridge's critique of Spinoza's pantheism.