Verity Harte is a specialist in ancient philosophy, with particular research interests in ancient metaphysics, epistemology, and moral and philosophical psychology, especially of Plato and Aristotle. She is presently writing a monograph on Plato’s Philebus for the series, Cambridge Studies in the Dialogues of Plato.
She studied Classics and Philosophy at Cambridge, where she gained her BA (Classics) and M.Phil and PhD (Philosophy) degrees. She held research fellowships at St. Edmund’s College, Cambridge, and St. Hilda’s College, Oxford, and was Lecturer, then Reader, in Philosophy at King’s College London, prior to joining the Faculty at Yale in 2006. At Yale, she holds a joint position in Philosophy and Classics. She has given the Whitehead Lectures in Philosophy at Harvard University and the J.H. Gray Lectures in Classics at the University of Cambridge. During 2025-26, she will be on sabbatical from Yale, while taking up the Eastman Professorship at the University of Oxford.