Claudia Yau

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 is writing a monograph on wisdom in Plato's Republic and has additional work on Aristotle’s theory of justice and methods of argumentation in Sextus Empiricus.

Publications

"Wisdom for the Living: Sophia in Plato’s Republic," Journal of the History of Philosophy (2025). 

"Aristotle on the Unity of General Justice and Virtue," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (2025).

"The Myth of Cronus in Plato’s Statesman: Cosmic Rotation and Earthly Correspondence" (with C. Gartner), Apeiron (2020).