Claudia Dumitru

Claudia Dumitru joins the FAS as Assistant Professor of Philosophy. She has research interests in the history of political philosophy, the history and philosophy of science, and issues at their intersection. In the history of political philosophy, her current project deals with Thomas Hobbes’s account of commonwealths by acquisition and the conception of trust central to it. In the history and philosophy of science, she has worked on the reception of Francis Bacon’s experimental method and the gradual emergence of a scientific worldview premised on a primary-secondary qualities distinction. At the intersection of the two fields, she plans to work on the notion of scarcity, its importance to political philosophy, and its connection to early modern developments in population and environmental thinking. 

Dumitru received her PhD from Princeton in 2023. She also has an MPhil in History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Cambridge and an MA in Analytic Philosophy from the University of Bucharest.