James G. Snyder is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Marist
College. He earned a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the CUNY Graduate
Center in 2008, where he wrote a dissertation on the philosophy of
the Renaissance Platonist Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499). Snyder's
research interests are primarily in Renaissance and early modern
philosophies, with a special emphasis on Platonic natural
philosophies and theories of matter. He has recently published
articles in Vivarium and The Journal of the History of
Ideas.