Colin Marshall is associate professor of Philosophy at the University of Washington, Seattle. His research focuses on 17th-19th century European philosophy and contemporary ethics. Much of his earlier work focused on interpretive questions concerning Spinoza, Kant, Schopenhauer, and other European philosophers, with a special focus on the metaphysics of the mind and the objectivity of morality. His current projects include a book on the ethics of persuasion (under contract with University of Chicago Press) and a Schopenhauerian guide to living a tolerable life (under contract with Princeton University Press).