David Keyt
David Keyt (* 1930 ) is an American philosopher and historian of philosophy .
Keyt received his BA from Kenyon College in Gambier , Ohio , and received his doctorate in 1955 from Cornell University with a dissertation on Clarence Irving Lewis ' theory of meaning. He was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Washington and is now Professor Emeritus there. He is also a Research Professor at the Center for the Philosophy of Freedom at the University of Arizona .
He has held visiting professorships at Cornell University, the University of Hong Kong , Princeton University and the University of California at Los Angeles and Irvine . Research stays took him to the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton .
His main research interests are the logic and philosophy of antiquity , especially Plato and Aristotle, as well as the political philosophy of the Greeks.
Fonts (selection)
- with Fred D. Miller, Jr. (Eds.): Freedom, Reason, and the Polis. Essays in Ancient Greek Political Philosophy. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2007
- Aristotle, Politics Books V and VI. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1999.
- with Fred D. Miller, Jr. (Ed.): A Companion to Aristotle's Politics. Blackwell, Oxford 1991
literature
- Georgios Anagnostopoulos , Fred D. Miller, Jr. (Eds.): Reason and Analysis in Ancient Greek Philosophy. Essays in Honor of David Keyt. Springer, Dordrecht 2013.
Web links
- The Works of David Keyt , in: Georgios Anagnostopoulos , Fred D. Miller, Jr. (Ed.): Reason and analysis in ancient Greek philosophy. Essays in honor of David Keyt. Springer, Dordrecht 2013, pp. 317–319 (list of publications)
- Literature by and about David Keyt in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries )
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| SURNAME | Keyt, David |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American philosopher and historian of philosophy |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1930 |