Justin Smith-Ruiu (formerly Justin E. H. Smith) (born July 30, 1972, in Reno, Nevada) is an American-Canadian professor of history and philosophy of science at the Université Paris Cité. His primary research interests include Leibniz, post-structuralism, early modern philosophy, history and philosophy of biology, classical Indian philosophy, the history and philosophy of anthropology.

Smith-Ruiu is the author of several books and is also a contributor to The New York Times,The New York Times: Opinionator: Posts published by Justin E. H. Smith Harper's Magazine,The Joke, By Justin Smith Harper's Magazine, April 2015 n+1, Slate, and Art in America.What Cave Art Means, by Justin E. H. Smith, Art in America, September 1, 2018

Smith-Ruiu is an editor-at-large of Cabinet Magazine.

Since the fall of 2020, he has been publishing philosophical and critical essays in his online newsletter, Justin Smith-Ruiu's Hinternet.

The main-belt asteroid 13585 Justinsmith is named after Smith-Ruiu.

Background and education 2023 Visiting professor of philosophy, Princeton University 2019–20 John and Constance Birkelund Fellow, Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, New York Public Library 2016–17 Émile Francqui Chair, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. 2011 Visiting scholar in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton 2007–08 Humboldt Foundation Research Fellow, Institut für Philosophie, Humboldt University of Berlin 2000 PhD in philosophy from Columbia University 1997–98 Doctoral Research on a DAAD Fellowship University of Münster 1994 BA with honors in philosophy and Russian at University of California, Davis

Bibliography Excerpted in Wired magazine. Also available via Academia.edu. Also available as in PDF format.

Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference: Race in Early Modern Philosophy, Princeton University Press (June 30, 2015) Divine Machines: Leibniz and the Sciences of Life, Princeton University Press (May 1, 2011) The Life Sciences in Early Modern Philosophy (ed., with Ohad Nachtomy), Oxford University Press (January 6, 2014) The Problem of Animal Generation in Early Modern Philosophy (ed.), Cambridge University Press (May 22, 2006)

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