Justin Smith-Ruiu

Justin Smith-Ruiu
Born	Justin Erik Halldór Smith (1972-07-30) July 30, 1972 (age 52) Reno, Nevada, US
Nationality	American Canadian
Academic background
Alma mater	University of California, Davis Columbia University
Academic work
Discipline	Philosophy
Sub-discipline	Philosophy of science
Institutions	Miami University Concordia University University of Paris
Website	www.jehsmith.com

Justin Smith-Ruiu (formerly Justin E. H. Smith^[1][2]) (born July 30, 1972, in Reno, Nevada) is an American-Canadian professor of history and philosophy of science at the Université Paris Cité.^[3] 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.^[4]

Smith-Ruiu is the author of several books^[4] and is also a contributor to The New York Times,^[5] Harper's Magazine,^[6] n+1, Slate,^[7] and Art in America.^[8]

Smith-Ruiu is an editor-at-large of Cabinet Magazine.^[9]

Since the fall of 2020, he has been publishing philosophical and critical essays on his Substack newsletter: Justin Smith-Ruiu's Hinternet.

The main-belt asteroid 13585 Justinsmith is named after Smith-Ruiu.^[10]

• 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^[11]
• 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

• Smith, Justin E. H. (March 22, 2022). The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, A Philosophy, A Warning. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-21232-6.^{[12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27]} Excerpted in Wired magazine.^[28]
• Smith, Justin E. H. (April 2, 2019). Irrationality: A History of the Dark Side of Reason. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. doi:10.1515/9780691189666. ISBN 978-0-691-17867-7. JSTOR j.ctvc774xd. OCLC 1051133820.^{[29][30][31][32][33][34][35]}
• Smith, Justin E. H. (May 3, 2016). The philosopher: A history in six types. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. doi:10.1515/9781400880577. ISBN 978-0-691-16327-7. JSTOR j.ctvc779bf. OCLC 939909039. Project MUSE book 64544.^{[36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43]}
• Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference: Race in Early Modern Philosophy, Princeton University Press (June 30, 2015) ISBN 0691153647^[44]
• Divine Machines: Leibniz and the Sciences of Life, Princeton University Press (May 1, 2011) ISBN 0691141789
• The Life Sciences in Early Modern Philosophy (ed., with Ohad Nachtomy), Oxford University Press (January 6, 2014) ISBN 0199987319
• The Problem of Animal Generation in Early Modern Philosophy (ed.), Cambridge University Press (May 22, 2006) ISBN 0521840775

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