Philosophy Department Faculty

Sarah Byers

Associate Professor

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Sarah Byers

Ph.D.

Contact

Stokes Hall North Room 359

Telephone: 617-552-3854

Email: sarah.byers@bc.edu

Education

Ph.D., Toronto
M.A., Toronto

Courses

Ancient Greek Philosophy (PL 405)

Augustine (PL 605)

Research Interests

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

Office Hours

MWF 1:00-2:00

Department

Philosophy

Some Recent Publications

MONOGRAPH: Perception, Sensibility, and Moral Motivation in Augustine (Cambridge University Press, 2012)
PODCAST INTERVIEW: "Sarah Byers on Augustine's Ethics," The History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps (Episode 114). A twenty-five minute interview.
"‘Consubstantiality’ as a Philosophical-Theological Problem: Victorinus’ Hylomorphic Model of God and His ‘Correction’ by Augustine," The Scottish Journal of Philosophy 75.1 (2022), 12-22.
“Plutarch and Myth as Allegory for Metaphysics: Commentary on M. Schiffman,” Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium on Ancient Philosophy 36, ed. G. Gurtler and D. Maher (Boston: Brill, 2022).
“Love, Will, and the Intellectual Ascents” in The Cambridge Companion to Augustine’s Confessions, ed. T. Toom (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020).
“The Stoics on Identity, Discernibility, and Identification: Commentary on T. Nawar,” Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium on Ancient Philosophy 32, ed. G. Gurtler and W. Wians (Boston: Brill, 2017).
“Augustinian and Aristotelian Puzzles About Embodiment: Flesh, Body, Life, and Death in Augustine” in Embodiment (Oxford Philosophical Concepts Series), ed. J.E.H. Smith (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017).
“Early Christian Ethics” in The Cambridge History of Moral Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017).
"Augustine's Debt to Stoic 'Affiliation' Theory in the Confessions" in The Routledge Handbook of the Stoic Tradition (Routledge, 2016).
"The Psychology of Compassion: A Reading of City of God 9.5" in The Cambridge Critical Guide to the City of God (Cambridge University Press, 2012)
"Augustine and the Philosophers" in A Companion to Augustine (Blackwell, 2012)
“Life as ‘Self-Motion’: Descartes and the Aristotelians on the Soul as the Life of the Body," Review of Metaphysics 59.4 (June 2006), 723-755.
“The Meaning of Voluntas in Augustine,” Augustinian Studies 37.2 (2006), 171-189.
“Augustine and the Cognitive Cause of Stoic ‘Preliminary Passions’ (Propatheiai),” Journal of the History of Philosophy 41.4 (October 2003), 433-448.

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Philosophy Department Faculty

Sarah Byers

Sarah Byers

Ph.D.

Contact

Education

Courses

Research Interests

Office Hours

Department

Some Recent Publications

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