Faculty
Jack Stetter
Assistant Professor
BIO
Ph.D. Philosophy Universit茅 Paris 8, 2019. Joined the Philosophy Department at USF in 2026. His research focuses on early modern philosophy, particularly 17th-C. philosophy and Baruch Spinoza. He is also especially interested in figures and topics in 19th- and 20th-C. European philosophy. With Stephen Howard, Stetter is co-editor of The Edinburgh Critical History of Early Modern and Enlightenment Philosophy (Edinburgh UP, 2025). With Charles Ramond, he is co-editor of Spinoza in Twenty-First Century American and French Philosophy (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019). Stetter is an incoming member of the APA Committee on International Cooperation, 肠丑别谤肠丑别耻谤&苍产蝉辫;补蝉蝉辞肠颈茅&苍产蝉辫;of the LLCP (Paris 8), and vice president of the newly founded Society for French and Francophone Philosophy. Prior to coming to USF, Stetter was a visiting assistant professor at Loyola University New Orleans, a Solmsen Fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities (University of Wisconsin - Madison), and a postdoctoral researcher at Louisiana State University. He is currently at work on a book, Spinoza and War, and on papers on connected topics such as Spinoza's conception of states as minds, Hegel's theory of war, and Coleridge's critique of Spinoza's pantheism.