Jacob Joyce

My research focuses on Early Modern and Medieval philosophy, with special interest in the ruptures and continuities between them. I am currently writing my dissertation on psychology in the metaphysics of Leibniz and Christian Wolff.  My other interests include (1) 20th-century phenomenology and historicism; (2) philosophical exchanges between Confucianism and the Enlightenment (esp. in relation to natural law); and (3) the influence of Jewish and Arabic philosophy on the West.