Claudia Yau

Claudia Yau is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and a faculty affiliate in the Department of Classics at Northwestern University. She completed her Ph.D. at Princeton University (2021) and holds a B.A. from Wellesley College (2016).

• Specialization: Ancient Greek philosophy, ethics, politics, epistemology, and Pyrrhonian skepticism.
• Current Research: Focuses on wisdom (sophia) in Plato and Aristotle, including a monograph on Plato’s Republic, and explores Aristotle’s theory of justice and argumentation methods in Sextus Empiricus.
• Additional Interests: Social philosophy and Chinese philosophy.

Contact: claudia.yau@northwestern.edu | cyau@northwestern.edu