Anat Schechtman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and received a PhD from Yale. Her primary research interests are in seventeenth-century philosophy. She has written on several figures in this period, including Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke and Malebranche. Her two main lines of research concern infinity and the metaphysics of substance and essence, as they are understood in this period. She has published articles in Philosophical Review, Mind, Philosophers’ Imprint and Journal of the History of Philosophy, and has taught at the University of Chicago and Harvard. She is currently at work on a monograph, Ontic Infinity, on quantitative and non-quantitative notions of infinity in the seventeenth century.
A word from Michael Titelbaum, Chair of Philosophy Department:
Associate Professor Anat Schechtman joined UW from the University of Chicago in 2014. She is a scholar of Early Modern metaphysics, changing the way we think of what infinity meant to figures in that historical period. She has earned numerous grants, including an ACLS, an NEH summer stipend, and a Humboldt Fellowship. She has also been recognized in three separate years for publishing one of the ten best articles in all of philosophy that year. At Madison, she teaches a signature introductory philosophy course on the meaning of life. She is a thoughtful, engaged contributor to the department, careful to point out how our decisions will affect the vulnerable and underserved among us. We are happy to have her as a colleague, and proud of her accomplishments.