Sarah Broadie

Sarah Broadie, formerly known as Sarah Waterlow, is currently Professor of Moral Philosophy and Wardlaw Professor at the University of St Andrews. Broadie specialises in ancient philosophy, with a particular emphasis on Aristotle and Plato. Her work engages with metaphysics and both ancient and contemporary ethics. She has achieved numerous honours throughout her career as an academic philosopher. Previously Broadie has worked at the University of Edinburgh, University of Texas at Austin, Yale, Rutgers, and Princeton.^[1]

Awards and honours

Broadie's first major honour came in 1990 when she was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.^[2] In 2002, she was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.^[2] Broadie was invited to give the Nellie Wallace Lectures at the University of Oxford in 2003. Her series was titled, 'Nature and Divinity in the Philosophies of Plato and Aristotle.'^[2] In the same year Broadie was also elected as a Fellow of the British Academy.^[2] In 2006 Broadie was elected as member of the Academia Europaea.^[2] Members of the Academia are nominated by peers and must eminent scholars in their fields.^[3] In 2012 Broadie became the 105th President of the Aristotelian Society, and delivered the Presidential Address titled 'Actual Instead.'^[4][5]

Selected publications

Books

As Sarah Waterlow

Nature, Change, and Agency in Aristotle's Physics: a philosophical study (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1984)

Passage and Possibility: a study of Aristotle's modal concepts (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1984)

As Sarah Broadie

Ethics with Aristotle (Oxford University Press, New York, 1991)

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics: Philosophical Introduction and Commentary, with a new translation by Christopher Rowe (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2002)

Articles

'Backwards Causation and Continuing', Mind 1974

The Third Man's Contribution to Plato's Paradigmatism', Mind 1982

'Aristotle's Now', Philosophical Quarterly 1984

'Nature, Craft and Phronesis in Aristotle', Philosophical Topics 1987

'Aristotle's Perceptual Realism', Southern Journal of Philosophy 1993

'Que fait le premier moteur d'Aristote?', Revue Philosophique 1993

'Nous and Nature in De Anima III', Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, 1997

'Following Aristotle's Directions', Method in Ancient Philosophy, ed. Jyl Gentzler, Oxford University Press 1998

'Aristotle's Elusive Summum Bonum', Social Philosophy and Policy 1999

'From Necessity to Fate: a Fallacy?' in The Journal of Ethics 2001

'Soul and Body in Plato and Descartes', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 2001

'Theodicy and Pseudo-History in the Timaeus', Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, 2001

'Aristotelian Piety', Phronesis XLVIII (2003), 54-70

'Alternative World-Histories', Philosophical Papers 31 (2002), 117-43

'The Contents of the Receptacle', The Modern Schoolman LXXX (March 2003), 171-189

'Plato's Intelligible World?' Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume LXXVIII. (2004), 65-79] 'GC I.4: Distinguishing Alteration', Proceedings of the XVth Symposium Aristotelicum, Oxford University Press 2004, 123-50

'A Contemporary Look at Aristotle's Changing Now' in Metaphysics, Soul, and Ethics in Ancient Thought, ed. R. Salles, OUP 2005, 81-93

'Virtue and Beyond in Plato and Aristotle', Southern Journal of Philosophy XLIII Supplement 2005 (Spindel Conference 2004), ed. T. Roche, 97-114

'On the Idea of the summum bonum' in Virtue, Norms, and Objectivity, issues in ancient and modern ethics, ed. C. Gill, OUP 2005, 41-58

References