history of philosophy
There are a number of faculty members at UW conducting research in the history of philosophy. They fall into two main sub-groups, one working primarily in ancient philosophy, the other primarily in modern. In the ancient group, Marc Cohen works on Aristotle’s metaphysics and epistemology. His most recent work has concentrated on Aristotle’s ontology and on Aristotle’s distinction between alteration and generation. David Keyt’s most recent work has been on Aristotle’s Prior Analytics and Politics. Jean Roberts has mainly been working on Aristotle’s Politics in recent years, but has longstanding and continuing interests in ancient and Hellenistic moral and political thought generally, as well as in the connections between Plato’s metaphysics and his ethics. Cass Weller works on Plato and Aristotle focusing most recently on practical reason in Aristotle and the unity of the good. These philosophers are also affiliated with the Classics Department, with whom they administer the Joint Ph.D. in Classics and Philosophy.