Brandon Smith

Welcome! I'm Brandon Smith, a FRQSC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Institute for Research in the Humanities.​​ My research concerns philosophy of happiness in general and, more particularly, tracing the history, development, and applicability of eudaimonism as an ethical tradition. 

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I recently published my first book on this theme: The Search for Mind-Body Flourishing in Spinoza's Eudaimonism (Brill, 2026). 

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I am now working on a second book concerning early modern eudaimonism, examining the moral frameworks of Thomas Hobbes, Pierre Gassendi, René Descartes, Benedict de Spinoza, Gabrielle Suchon, Lady Damaris Masham, and G. W. Leibniz. 

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