Marcos André Gleizer is Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy of the State University of Rio de Janeiro, and Researcher at the National Counsel of Technological and Scientific Development (CNPq). He received his Bachelor and Master’s degrees in Philosophy at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1985 and 1987, respectively), his PhD in Philosophy at the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne (1992), and was Visiting Fellow at Princeton University (2001-2002) and at the University of Bourgogne (2014-2015). His area of specialization is Early Modern Philosophy, and his main interests are on topics of metaphysics, epistemology and ethics in the rationalists. He is the author of many articles on Spinoza and Descartes published in academic journals and of the following books: Verdade e Certeza em Espinosa (Porto Alegre: L&PM, 1999); Espinosa e a afetividade humana (Rio de Janeiro: ZAHAR, 2005 and 2011); Metafísica e Conhecimento: Ensaios sobre Descartes e Espinosa (Rio de Janeiro: EDUERJ, 2014); Lições introdutórias à Ética de Espinosa (Rio de Janeiro: Viavérita, 2014); Vérité et Certitude chez Spinoza (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2017).

His current project of research deals with the problems of individuation and personal identity in Spinoza and Locke. Although both authors refuse to explain personal identity in terms of substantiality, and both stress the importance of memory for its adequate understanding, the project tries to show that Spinoza’s psychophysical parallelism has the resources to avoid the problems faced by Locke’s strictly psychological approach.