She was raised in the suburbs of Philadelphia. She graduated from the University of Chicago, with a B.A. in 1972, and Yale University with a Ph.D. in Philosophy in 1978.^[4]

She was a 1988 Guggenheim Fellow.^[5] She held National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships in 1985 and in 2004,^[6] and American Council of Learned Societies fellowships in 1982 and 1997.^[7]

She has served as an advisory editor for the Hudson Review since 1984.^[8] She has been a member of the editorial board of the Journal of the History of Ideas since 1998, a member of the editorial board of Studia Leibnitiana since 2002, and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics since 2010.^[9] She is a member of the Directive Committee of the Association for the Philosophy of Mathematical Practice.^[10]

She is married to the medievalist Robert R. Edwards, with whom she has four children.

Autobiography/Essay edit

• Great Circles, Springer, 2018, ISBN 978-3-319-98230-4 ISBN 978-3-319-98231-1 (eBook) doi:10.1007/978-3-319-98231-1 LCCN 2018-954226

Poetry edit

• The River Painter, University of Illinois Press, 1984, ISBN 978-0-252-01098-9
• Shores and Headlands, Princeton University Press, 1988, ISBN 978-0-691-06749-0
• Eden, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992, ISBN 978-0-8018-4390-7
• The Abacus of Years. David R. Godine Publisher, Inc. 2001. ISBN 978-1-56792-155-7.
• Feuilles; Huit poèmes: Edition bilingue français-anglais, with Farhad Ostovani, William Blake And Co, 2009, ISBN 978-2-84103-165-8
• Beginning and End of the Snow, Bucknell University Press, 2012, ISBN 978-1-61148-458-8 (English Translation of Yves Bonnefoy Debut et fin de la Neige, Mercure de France; with drawings by Farhad Ostovani)
• Proportions of the Heart: Poems that Play with Mathematics, Tessellations Publishing, 2014, ISBN 978-1-938664-10-6 (with mathematical artwork by Robert Fathauer)
• Childhood, Accents Publishing, 2014, ISBN 978-1-936628-27-8 (with drawings by Lucy Vines), translated to Yoruba language in 2021 by Kola Tubosun^[11][12]
• The Stars of Earth: New and Selected Poems, Word Galaxy Press, 2017, ISBN 978-1-77349-001-4

Philosophy edit

• Cartesian Method and the Problem of Reduction (1991) Oxford University Press ISBN 978-0-19-824250-5
• Emily Grosholz & Elkanan Yakira (1998). Leibniz's science of the rational. Franz Steiner Verlag. ISBN 978-3-515-07400-1.
• Representation and Productive Ambiguity in Mathematics and the Sciences,Oxford University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-19-929973-7
• "The Humanism of Ernst Cassirer", Hudson Review
• Starry Reckoning: Reference and Analysis in Mathematics and Cosmology (2016) Springer Verlag, SAPERE. In Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics Series (edited by Lorenzo Magnani).
• "Was Leibniz a mathematical revolutionary?", pages 117 to 133 of Revolutions in Mathematics (1992) Gillies editor, Oxford University Press.

Editor edit

• Emily Grosholz, James Stewart and Bernard Bell (Eds), W. E. B. Du Bois on Race and Culture, Routledge, 1996, ISBN 0-415-91556-2
• Emily Grosholz (Ed), Telling the Barn Swallow: Poets on the Poetry of Maxine Kumin, University Press of New England, 1997, ISBN 978-0-87451-784-2
• Emily Grosholz and Herbert Breger (Eds), The Growth of Mathematical Knowledge, Kluwer, 1999, ISBN 0-7923-6151-2
• Emily Grosholz (Ed), The Legacy of Simone de Beauvoir, Oxford University Press, 2004 / 2008, ISBN 0-19-926535-6
• Emily Grosholz, Carlo Cellucci and Emiliano Ippoliti (Eds), Logic and Knowledge, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011, ISBN 978-1-4438-3008-9
• Emily Grosholz (Ed), Studia Leibnitiana, Band 44, Heft 1 (2012), Franz Steiner Verlag, ISSN 0039-3185 (Special issue on Leibniz, Time and History)

• "Emily Grosholz Interview", Southern Bookman
• "Crossing the Canal St. Martin"