Don Garrett is a prominent American philosopher specializing in early modern philosophy, with particular expertise in the works of Baruch Spinoza and David Hume. He is Silver Professor of Philosophy at New York University and is widely regarded as one of the leading scholars of 17th- and 18th-century rationalism and empiricism. His scholarship bridges careful historical interpretation with contemporary analytic concerns in metaphysics and epistemology.
Authored Nature and Necessity in Spinoza's Philosophy (2018), a landmark study of Spinoza's metaphysics and necessitarianism
Authored Cognition and Commitment in Hume's Philosophy (1997), influencing debates on Hume's theory of belief and causation
Developed influential interpretations of Spinoza's attribute theory and the mind-body relation
Edited The Cambridge Companion to Spinoza, a standard reference in the field
Silver Professor at NYU, shaping a generation of early modern philosophy scholars