Richard Bett

Richard Bett holds a joint appointment in Philosophy and Classics at Johns Hopkins University. He received his BA from Oxford University and his PhD from UC Berkeley. He spent 1994-5 as a Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, DC. From January 2000 to June 2001 he was Acting Executive Director of the American Philosophical Association, and he is currently Secretary-Treasurer of its Eastern Division.

Professor Bett specializes in ancient Greek philosophy, and has strong interests in ancient and modern ethics and epistemology, as well as Nietzsche.