Dr Dustin Klinger
College Research Associate
Research interestsDustin Klinger works on the history of Greco-Arabic philosophy in the premodern period. He is especially interested in postclassical Islamic intellectual history and the role of philosophy of language. His current project investigates approaches to theories of meaning in different scientific disciplines in the Islamic East between the 14th and 17th centuries. He is the author of Being Another Way: The Copula and Arabic Philosophy of Language, 900-1500 (University of California Press, 2024). Currently he is a British Academy International Fellow at the University of Cambridge. Previously, he held an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship at Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Renaissance Studies, and was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Munich. He received his PhD from Harvard.