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Samuel Newlands is the Carl E. Koch Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, affiliated with the College of Arts and Letters and the Department of Philosophy. He earned his PhD from Yale University and has been at Notre Dame since 2006. His research focuses on early modern philosophy, metaphysics, and philosophy of religion, with a particular emphasis on Spinoza, Leibniz, and theodicy. He is the author of Reconceiving Spinoza (Oxford University Press, 2018) and co-editor of multiple volumes. Newlands has led major research initiatives totaling over $12.5 million in grants, including projects on hope and optimism, transformative experiences, and the metaphysics of evil. He has held prestigious fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and serves as Director of the Center for Philosophy of Religion. His teaching spans early modern metaphysics, Spinozism, and contemporary analytic philosophy.
Notable publications include groundbreaking analyses of Spinozistic monism and Leibnizian metaphysics, such as 'Baumgarten’s Steps Towards Spinozism' (2022) and 'From Theism to Idealism to Monism' (2021). He has advised numerous PhD students and contributed to interdisciplinary projects bridging philosophy with psychology and theology. Newlands' work emphasizes conceptual relations in early modern systems and their relevance to contemporary metaphysics.
His awards include the NEH Fellowship (2021-22) for his book project on Spinozistic readings of early modern thought and recognition for his 2014 article on Leibniz's metaphysics of evil. Beyond academia, he enjoys retro gaming, tennis, and family life in South Bend.
