Rate My Professor Eric Schliesser

Professor Eric Schliesser is professor of Political Science, with a focus on Political Theory, at the University of Amsterdam’s Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences. Born in 1971, he earned his PhD from the University of Chicago in 2002. His research encompasses a variety of themes, ranging from economic statistics in classical Babylon and the history of the natural sciences to forgotten 18th-century feminists, political theory and the history of political theory, and the assumptions used in mathematical economics. Schliesser’s interest in the influence of the Chicago school of economics has moved his research toward the study of the methodology and political role of economists as experts. He was previously affiliated with Syracuse University, Leiden University, and Ghent University among others.

Schliesser has published prolifically on Newton, Huygens, Spinoza, Berkeley, Hume, Adam Smith, and Sophie de Grouchy. His publications include the monograph Adam Smith: Systematic Philosopher and Public Thinker (Oxford University Press, 2017). He has edited numerous volumes, including Newton and Empiricism (Oxford University Press, with Zvi Biener, 2014), Sympathy, a History of a Concept (Oxford University Press, 2015), and Ten Neglected Classics of Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 2017). He is currently working on a translation and critical edition of Sophie de Grouchy’s Letters on Sympathy (together with Sandrine Berges). Schliesser maintains a daily blog, Digressionsnimpressions.