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Hi everybody. This is Gatsad. Today I have another fantastic guest, a philosopher. I'm going to read his bio

shortly, but first let me say hello. Professor Stephen Nadler, how are you doing, sir?

Hello, thanks for having me on. Oh, I'm delighted to have you on. Actually, well, I'll say in a

second how you came up, but before I do that, it's, you said, Vilas, yes?

Yes.

Okay.

So you are the Vilas research professor and the William H. Hay, the second professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

You're also the director of the Institute for Research in the Humanities at Sets University.

You specialize in 17th century philosophy with a focus on Spinoza,

Descartes and Leibniz. Some of your books include, and this is a sample of all of your books.

Spinoza, a life. That's what drew me to you. Look at this baby. Here we go. Good looking book. Gorgeous book. Now we go to Rembrandt's Jews 2003, The Best of All Possible Worlds, a story of philosophers, God and Evil, the philosopher, the priest, and the painter, a portrait of Descartes. Now, I don't have your book on

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