Gwendolyn Marshall

Welcome!

I am a tenured Associate Professor of Philosophy at Florida International University -- the Miami, Florida, campus of the State University System of Florida. From 2010 until 2014, I was an assistant professor in the philosophy department at Wellesley College.

View my Curriculum Vitae.

Research:

I study the history of modern philosophy, focusing on questions of mind and psychology in the 17th Century. My specialty is Spinoza.

My published work has addressed Spinoza's views on adequate knowledge, innate ideas, consciousness, the affects, akrasia, and, more recently, the concept of evil. I have also written a book, titled, The Spiritual Automaton: Spinoza's Science of the Mind, available from Oxford University Press.

In addition to Spinoza, I have done work on the philosophy of Margaret Cavendish, particularly her views on the mind, her naturalism, and her arguments for panpsychism. For example, I released a teaching edition of her Observations Upon Experimental Philosophy with Hackett. I also authored an entry on her philosophy at the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. I am currently thinking about her proto-science fictional, quasi-feminist utopian adventure story, The Blazing World.

Recently, I co-edited a new anthology of primary sources, with Susanne Sreedhar, for Routledge, titled, A New Modern Philosophy: The Inclusive Anthology of Primary Sources, which provides all the readings necessary to teach a broad variety of courses in the history of modern philosophy, with a special emphasis on diversifying the canon by including women and authors of color, as well as a wider range of topics than is normally included in such volumes.

In the future, I shall continue working on 17th Century philosophy, but I am also beginning to work in the Philosophy of Games.

Most of my published work can be accessed directly via my PhilPapers profile.