University of Alabama at Birmingham

The Thomistic Institute at the University of Alabama at Birmingham presents a lecture by Prof. Sarah Byers of Boston College titled “Emotional Health and Cognitive Therapy: The Ancient Stoics and St. Augustine.”

Spencer's Honors House

Wednesday, October 19

6:00 PM

This lecture is free and open to the public.

About the speaker

Sarah Byers is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Boston College. She received a masters and Ph.D. from the University of Toronto, and 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.