University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

A lecture by Prof. Sarah Byers (Boston College)

Thursday, November 7

5:00 PM

Student Union Room 3209

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.