Eric Schliesser
2025-2026 Visiting Faculty Fellow, Center for Ethics
Biography
Eric Schliesser is a Professor of Political Science in the University of Amsterdam’s Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences. In 2025-26, he will be a Visiting Faculty Fellow at The Murphy Institute’s Center for Ethics at Tulane University.
Schliesser's research encompasses a variety of themes, ranging from economic statistics in classical Babylon, the history of the natural sciences and forgotten 18th-century feminists (both male and female) to political theory and the history of political theory and the assumptions used in mathematical economics. Schliesser's interest in the influence of Chicago school of economics has increasingly 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.
Publications
Schliesser has published prolifically on Newton, Huygens, Spinoza, Berkeley, Hume, Adam Smith and Sophie De Grouchy. His publications include his monograph, Adam Smith: Systematic philosopher and Public Thinker (OUP, 2017). He has edited numerous volumes including (inter alia) Newton and empiricism. (OUP, with Zvi Biener, 2014); Sympathy, a History of a Concept (OUP, 2015); Ten Neglected Classics of philosophy (Oxford, 2017). Right now he is working on a translation and critical edition of Sophie de Grouchy's Letters on Sympathy (together with Sandrine Berges). He keeps a daily blog Digressionsnimpressions.
For more on Schliesser's work, please visit https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/s/c/e.s.schliesser/e.s.schliesser.html?cb#Publications
Education & Affiliations
- PhD, The University of Chicago, 2002
