Yale University

A lecture by Prof. Sarah Byers (Boston College)

Wednesday, December 4th

4PM

William L. Harkness Hall 208

This lecture is free and open to the public.

About the Speaker:

Sarah Byers is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Boston College. Her interests include St. Augustine, Hellenistic philosophy, and the history of ancient and medieval ethics and metaphysics. She is responsible for many publications, including Perception, Sensibility, and Moral Motivation in Augustine: A Stoic-Platonic Synthesis, a book that argues that Augustine assimilated the Stoic theory of perception into his philosophy.