Spinoza on the Human Perspective

Ursula Renz is Professor at the University of Graz, Austria. She held positions at the University of Klagenfurt, Roskilde University, the ETH and the University of Zurich; was a visiting scholar at Yale University, the ENS Lyon, Harvard University, the University of Konstanz, the Warwick Center for Advanced Studies and visiting professor at the ENS Lyon (2018). She specializes in the history of early modern philosophy, late 19th/early 20th century philosophy and the history of analytic philosophy. Sarah Tropper is Assistant Professor at the University of Graz and Research Fellow at the University of Toronto. She obtained her PhD from King's College London with a thesis on Leibniz's metaphysics and has since worked and published on the early modern rationalists. Oliver Istvan Toth is an Assistant Professor at the University of Heidelberg. He obtained his PhD from University of Graz with a thesis on Spinoza's philosophy of mind. His research focuses on the theoretical background of debates in Spinoza's and Hegel's practical philosophy. Barnaby R. Hutchins held research positions at Bar-Ilan University, Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt, Ghent University, and Technion — Israel Institute of Technology. His research is mostly concerned with the intersections of metaphysics and biology in the early modern period. Philip Waldner is a Coordinator for the ethics committee of FH Campus Wien (Vienna). He obtained his PhD from the University of Graz with a thesis about Spinoza's political philosophy. His areas of expertise include philosophy of language, ethics and political philosophy.