Richard Cartwright's teaching and research interests are in the history of philosophy, metaphysics, and the philosophy of logic. Although his published works fall mainly into the latter two areas and his philosophical concerns continue to be centered in them, he has increasingly found studies of works of the past a useful vehicle for philosophical understanding. His work during the past couple of years has concentrated on analysis of fundamental metaphysical concepts substance, attribute, essence, set, identity, contingency, persistence, for example; for this purpose he has studied and lectured on the metaphysical writings of Aristotle, Aquinas, and Leibniz. He has, in addition, a longstanding interest in the work in philosophical logic, philosophy of language, and metaphysics of Frege, Russell, and the early Wittgenstein.
Richard Cartwright
