Justin Smith-Ruiu
Justin Smith-Ruiu is an American-Canadian professor of history and philosophy of science at the Université Paris Cité. His primary research interests include Leibniz, post-structuralism, early modern philosophy, history and philosophy of biology, classical Indian philosophy, the history and philosophy of anthropology.
Smith-Ruiu is the author of several books and is also a contributor to The New York Times, Harper's Magazine, n+1, Slate, and Art in America.
Smith-Ruiu is an editor-at-large of Cabinet Magazine.
Since the fall of 2020, he has been publishing philosophical and critical essays in his online newsletter, Justin Smith-Ruiu's Hinternet.
The main-belt asteroid 13585 Justinsmith is named after Smith-Ruiu.
Background and education
- 2023 Visiting professor of philosophy, Princeton University
- 2019–20 John and Constance Birkelund Fellow, Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, New York Public Library
- 2016–17 Émile Francqui Chair, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
- 2011 Visiting scholar in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
- 2007–08 Humboldt Foundation Research Fellow, Institut für Philosophie, Humboldt University of Berlin
- 2000 PhD in philosophy from Columbia University
- 1997–98 Doctoral Research on a DAAD Fellowship University of Münster
- 1994 BA with honors in philosophy and Russian at University of California, Davis