WALKER, Matthew D
Assistant Professor, Courtesy Joint Appointment
Humanities (Philosophy), Yale-NUS College
Teaching Areas
Greek Philosophy, especially Aristotle
| Brief Introduction | Dr Matthew D Walker received his BA in Philosophy from Amherst College and his PhD in Philosophy from Yale University. Prior to joining Yale-NUS, Dr Walker was an American Council of Learned Societies New Faculty Fellow in Philosophy at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, a post-doctoral fellow in the Ethics of Virtue at the University of Miami, and a participant in ‘Traditions into Dialogue: Confucianism and Contemporary Virtue Ethics,’ a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar. He was also a Visiting Fellow at the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, Michaelmas term 2014.
As a graduate student at Yale, Dr Walker received Sterling P Lamprecht and Forris Jewett Moore Fellowships in Philosophy from Amherst College, and was a five-time recipient of Yale’s Jacob Cooper Prize in Greek philosophy. |