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Associate Professor, Acting Chair (spring 2008) & Graduate Adviser
Ph.D., 1996, University
of Chicago
rosentha@u.washington.edu
Condon 512
(206) 685-2655
Michael Rosenthal is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and member
of the Jewish Studies program at the University of Washington. He
received his bachelors degree from Stanford University and both
his masters and doctorate degrees in philosophy from the University
of Chicago. Before arriving in Seattle, he taught at Grinnell College
in Iowa. He teaches and publishes in the areas of early
modern philosophy, ethics, political
philosophy, and Jewish philosophy. His current research focuses
on the philosophy of Benedict Spinoza.
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- "Persuasive Passions: Rhetoric and the Interpretation of Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise," forthcoming in Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, volume 3, 2003.
- "The 'Black, Scabby Brazilian:' Some Thoughts on Race and Early Modern Philosophy," forthcoming in Philosophy & Social Criticism (2003).
- "Spinoza's Republican Argument for Tolerance," Journal of Political Philosophy, volume 11 (3), September 2003, 320-337.
- "Spinoza's Dogmas of Universal Faith and the Problem of Religion," Philosophy and Theology, volume 13 (1), 2001, 53-72.
- "Tolerance as a Virtue in Spinoza's Ethics," Journal of the History of Philosophy, volume 34 (4), October 2001, 535-557.
- "Tolerance and the Right to Resist in Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise: The Problem of Christ's Disciples," in Piety, Peace, and the Freedom to Philosophize, Paul Bagley, ed., Kluwer Academic Press, 1999, 111-132.
- "Two Collective Action Problems in Spinoza's Social Contract Theory," History of Philosophy Quarterly, volume 15 (4), October 1998, 389-409.
- "Why Spinoza Chose the Hebrews: The Exemplary Function of Prophecy in the Theological-Political Treatise," in History of Political Thought, volume XVIII (1), Summer 1997, 207-241. Reprinted in: (1) Jewish Themes in Spinoza's Philosophy, eds. Lenn Goodman and Heidi Ravven, State University of New York Press: 2002, 225-260; and also in (2) Spinoza, International Critical Library of Philosophy, eds. Yirmiyahu Yovel and Gideon Segal, Ashgate Academic Publishers: 2002.
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