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David KeytDavid Keyt

Professor
 Ph.D., 1955, Cornell University

keyt@u.washington.edu
Savery 510A
(206) 543-5084


David Keyt is professor of philosophy at the University of Washington. He received his bachelor's degree in philosophy from Kenyon College and his doctorate from Cornell. He has held visiting appointments at Cornell, the University of Hong Kong, Princeton, and the Los Angeles and Irvine campuses of the University of California. He has had research appointments at the Institute for Research in Humanities at the University of Wisconsin, the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington DC, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, and the Social Philosophy & Policy Center at Bowling Green State University. He teaches courses in logic and ancient Greek philosophy. His recent publications have been on Greek political philosophy.


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Publications

Books

  • Freedom, Reason, and the Polis: Essays in Ancient Greek Political Philosophy, co-edited with Fred D. Miller, Jr. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xxii + 316.
  • Aristotle Politics Books V and VI. Translation with introduction and commentary. Oxford: Clarendon Press (Clarendon Aristotle Series), 1999. Pp. xvii + 265.
  • A Companion to Aristotle’s Politics, co-edited with Fred D. Miller, Jr. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1991. Pp. xiv + 407.
Articles

  • "Deductive Logic," forthcoming in A Companion to Aristotle.
  • "The Good Man and the Upright Citizen in Aristotle's Ethics and Politics," in Keyt and Miller (2007), 220-40.
  • "Plato on Justice," in The Blackwell Companion to the Philosophy of Plato, edited by Hugh H. Benson (Oxford, 2006), 341-55.
  • "Aristotle's Political Philosophy," in A Companion to Ancient Philosophy edited by Mary Louise Gill and Pierre Pellegrin (Oxford, 2006), 393-412.
  • "Plato and the Ship of State," in The Blackwell Guide to Plato's Republic edited by Gerasimos Santas (Oxford, 2006), 189-213.
  • "Ancient Greek Political Thought," with Fred Miller, in Handbook of Political Theory, edited by Gerald F. Gaus and Chandran Kukathas, (London 2004), 303-19.
  • "Fred Miller on Aristotle’s Political Naturalism," Ancient Philosophy. 16 (Fall, 1996), 425-30.
  • "Aristotle and the Ancient Roots of Anarchism," Topoi l5 (March, 1996), 129-42.
  • "Supplementary Essay," to the reissue of Aristotle’s Politics, Books III and IV, translated with a commentary by Richard Robinson (Oxford, 1995), 125-152.
  • "The Four Causes in Aristotle’s Politics," in Aristotelian Political Philosophy, vol. I, edited by K. I. Boudouris (Athens, 1995), 101-7.
  • Aristotle and Anarchism," Reason Papers 18 (Fall, 1993), 137-57. Reprinted in Aristotle's Politics: Critical Essays (Lanham, 2005), 203-22.
  • "Analyzing Plato’s Arguments: Plato and Platonism," with S. Marc Cohen, in Methods of Interpreting Plato and His Dialogues, edited by James C. Klagge and Nicholas D. Smith (Oxford, 1992), 173-200. Republished in Plato: Critical Assessments edited by Nicholas D. Smith (London, 1997), vol.I, 357-81.
  • "The Meaning of BIOS in Aristotle’s Ethics and Politics," Ancient Philosophy 9 (1989), 15-21.
  • "Injustice and Pleonexia in Aristotle: A Reply to Charles Young" in Aristotle’s Ethics edited by Timothy D. Roche, supplementary volume of The Southern Journal of Philosophy (1988), 251-57.
  • "Three Fundamental Theorems in Aristotle’s Politics," Phronesis (1987), 54-79. Republished in Aristotle: Critical Assessments, edited by Lloyd P. Gerson (London, 1999), vol. IV, 83-107. A revised version appears under the title "Three Basic Theorems in Aristotle’s Politics" in Keyt and Miller (1991), 118-41.
  • "Distributive Justice in Aristotle’s Ethics and Politics," Topoi (March, 1985), 23-45. A substantially revised version appears under the title "Aristotle’s Theory of Distributive Justice" in Keyt and Miller (1991), 238-78.
  • "Intellectualism in Aristotle," in the Special Aristotle Issue of Paideia (1978), 138-157. A revised version appears in Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy, vol. II, edited by John P. Anton and Anthony Preus (Albany, 1983), 364-87.
  • "The Social Contract as an Analytic, Justificatory, and Polemic Device," Canadian Journal of Philosophy (December, 1974), 241-52.
  • "The Philosophy of C.I. Lewis," Philosophical Review (October, 1973), 491-516.
  • "Plato on Falsity: Sophist 263B," in Exegesis and Argument, Studies in Greek Philosophy Presented to Gregory Vlastos, edited by Edward N. Lee, Alexander P.D. Mourelatos, and Richard Rorty (Amsterdam, 1973), 285-305.
  • "The Mad Craftsman of the Timaeus," Philosophical Review (April, 1971), 230-35.
  • "Plato’s Paradox that the Immutable is Unknowable," Philosophical Quarterly (January, 1969), 1-14.
  • "Wittgenstein, the Vienna Circle, and Precise Concepts," Proceedings of the XIVth International Congress of Philosophy (Vienna, 1968), vol. II, 237-46.
  • "A New Interpretation of the Tractatus Examined," Philosophical Review (April, 1965), 229-39.
  • "Wittgenstein’s Picture Theory of Language," Philosophical Review (October, 1964), 493-511. Republished in Essays on Wittgensteins's Tractatus, edited by Irving M. Copi and Robert W. Beard (New York, 1966), 377-92.
  • "The Fallacies in Phaedo 102A-107B," Phronesis (1963), 167-72.
  • "Singer’s Generalization Argument," Philosophical Review (October, 1963), 466-76.
  • "Wittgenstein’s Notion of an Object," Philosophical Quarterly (January, 1963), 13-25. Republished in Copi and Beard, Essays on Wittgenstein’s Tractatus, 289-303.
  • "Aristotle on Plato’s Receptacle," American Journal of Philology (July, 1961), 291-300.

Reviews

  • Review of Political Authority and Obligation in Aristotle by Andrés Rosler, Journal of Hellenic Studies 126 (2006), 213-14.
  • Review of Aristotle: Political Philosophy by Richard Kraut, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2003.02.07.
  • Review of Aristotle's Criticism of Plato’s Republic by Robert Mayhew, Ancient Philosophy 18 (1998), 486-92.
  • Review of Parmenides, Plato, and the Semantics of Not-Being by Francis Jeffry Pelletier, Noûs 28 (March, 1994), 117-19.
  • Review of Plato on the Self-Predication of Forms by John Malcolm, Bryn Mawr Classical Review (February, 1992), 38-44.
  • Review of Forms in Plato’s Philebus by E.E. Benitez, Ancient Philosophy 12 (1992), 190-93.
  • Review of The Dialogues of Plato, volume 1, translated with analysis by R.E. Allan, Ancient Philosophy 7 (1987), 222-27.
  • Review of An Introduction to Plato’s Laws by R.F. Stalley, Journal of the History of Philosophy (April, 1985), 249-50.
  • Review of Plato’s Arguments for Forms by Robert William Jordan, Ancient Philosophy 4 (1984), 241-46.
  • Review of Plato’s Theory of Understanding by John Moline, Journal of the History of Philosophy (October, 1983), 551-52.
  • Review of Aristotle’s Political Theory by R.G. Mulgan and of Aristotle by John B. Morrall, Philosophical Quarterly (January, 1981), 68-69.
  • Review of Letters from Ludwig Wittgenstein with a Memoir by Paul Englemann, Dialogue (June, 1969), 128-31.
  • Review of Material Objects by W.D. Joske, Philosophical Review (January, 1969), 110-13.


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