Assistant Professor
About
Claudia Yau specializes in ancient Greek philosophy, especially ancient ethics, politics, and epistemology. Her current research project focuses on wisdom in Plato and Aristotle: what wisdom consists in, what sets this virtue apart from other intellectual abilities, what it enables and obligates the wise to do, and what role wisdom plays in ethics and politics. She has additional work on Aristotle’s theory of justice and methods of argumentation in Sextus Empiricus.
Prof. Yau is working on a monograph on wisdom in Plato's Republic. She has published and forthcoming articles in the Journal of the History of Philosophy, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, and Apeiron.
