Sarah Byers

philosophy department

 

byers

Assistant Professor

Ph.D., Toronto; MA, Toronto

Maloney Hall, Room 364
21 Campanella Way
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467

Phone: 617-552-3854
Fax: 617-552-3874
Email: sarah.byers@bc.edu

Fields of Interest

  • Augustine
  • Hellenistic philosophy
  • History of ethics, history of metaphysics (especially ancient and medieval)

Current Teaching

  • On research leave in 2009-2010

Other Professional Activities

  • Reviewer of manscripts, University of Chicago Press, Polity Press
  • Board member, journal Augustiniana

Some Recent Publications

  • Perception, Sensibility, and Moral Motivation in Augustine (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press)
  • "The Psychology of Compassion: A Reading of City of God 9.5" in The Cambridge Critical Guide to the City of God (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press)
  • "Augustine and the Philosophers," Blackwell Companion to Augustine, ed. M. Vessey (forthcoming 2010)
  • “Life as ‘Self-Motion’: Descartes and the Aristotelians on the Soul as the Life of the Body,” Review of Metaphysics 59.4 (June 2006), 723-55.
  • “The Meaning of Voluntas in Augustine,” Augustinian Studies 37.2 (2006), 171-89.
  • “Augustine and the Cognitive Cause of Stoic ‘Preliminary Passions’ (Propatheiai),” Journal of the History of Philosophy XLI.4 (October 2003), 433-48.