The department has a number of members who work in the history of philosophy. Our strengths are in ancient and modern.
In the area of ancient philosophy, Sosseh Assaturian focuses on Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, especially philosophy of language, metaphysics, and logic, with a focus on the Stoics. She is particularly interested in the Stoic theory of lekta, the development of theories of language, grammar, reference, and meaning in antiquity, and applications of ancient semantic theory in contemporary philosophy of language.
In the area of modern philosophy, Paul Franco works primarily on the history of analytic philosophy, the history of philosophy of science, values in science, and their intersections. He also like to draw attention to philosophers who have so far not figured prominently in our narratives about the development of analytic philosophy and philosophy of science in the 20th century, e.g., Susan Stebbing, Margaret Macdonald, Stephen Toulmin, and Mary Hesse. Colin Marshall works on topics in Kant’s first Critique and Spinoza’s philosophy of mind.
For a comprehensive view of faculty and graduate students in our department with an interest in history of philosophy, as well as a their publications in this area, please see the following fields of interest pages: