Whitney Jack Schwab

Associate Professor · Tenured

Department of Philosophy

College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences

About

Grew up in upstate New York. Attended Cornell University (BA), Oxford University (BPhil), and Princeton University (MA, PhD). Began teaching at UMBC in Fall 2013.

Research interests

Ancient philosophy

Teaching interests

Ancient philosophy, epistemology, metaphysics, ethics

Education

  • Ph D, Philosophy — Princeton University (2013)
    Opinion, Knowledge, and Understanding in Plato's Meno and Republic
  • Other, Philosophy — Oxford University (2007)
    The Beliefs of a Skeptic: Dogma in Sextus Empiricus
  • BA, Philosophy — Cornell University (2005)
    Psuche and Nous in Aristotle