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Sarah Broadie
Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University

"Body and Soul in Plato and Descartes"
Tuesday, March 14, 2000 - 4:10 p.m.
Toll Room, Alumni House, University of California, Berkeley

Sarah Broadie is a Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has written broadly on topics in classical philosophy, especially Aristotle, but also extending to issues of causation, time, agency, and ethics. Her current work focuses on Plato's theory of immortality.

Focusing on studies of Aristotle, Broadie wrote "Nature, Change, and Agency in Aristotle's Physics" (1982) and "Passage and Possibility: A Study of Aristotle's Modal Concepts" (1982). A paperback edition of her most recent book "Ethics with Aristotle" (1991) was issued in 1993.

Broadie is a member of the American Association of University Professors, the American Philosophical Association, and the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy. She has served as a referee for the Oxford University Press, several journals of philosophy, and National Humanities Center Fellowships.

Broadie was born in Somerset, England and attended Oxford University. She received her Ph.D. from Edinburgh University.

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