Faculty Profiles
Patricia A. Sayre
Professor
Philosophy
24 Spes Unica Hall, Rm 161 E
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Education
PhD, University of Notre Dame
BA, Wheaton College
Research Interests
- Wittgenstein
- History and philosophy of logic
- The problem of other minds
- Moral psychology
- The meaning of life
Courses Recently Taught
- PHIL 110W: Introductory Philosophy
- PHIL 220: Introduction to Logic
- PHIL 235: Philosophy of Human Existence
- PHIL 331: Descartes to Skepticism
- PHIL 410: Philosophers of Consequence: Wittgenstein
- PHIL 341: Mind, Knowledge, and Reality
Creative and Scholarly Work
- "The Dialectics of Trust and Suspicion." Faith and Philosophy 10, no. 4 (1993): 567-584.
- “Beauty: A Manifesto.” Presented at the 4th Global Conference on Beauty, Oxford, England, September 2014.
- “Wittgenstein’s Grave: On Philosophical Pilgrimage.” Presented at the 2nd Global Conference on Sacred Journeys, Oxford, England, July 2015.
- “Empathy: Responding to a Pathology.” The Personalist Forum 15, no. 2 (2003): 290-301.
- "Wittgenstein and the Possibility of Religious Belief," Wissen und Glauben: Beitrage des 26, ed. Winfreid Loffler and Paul Weingartner. Internationalen Wittgenstein Symposiums, vol. XI, Kirchberg am Wechsel: Osterreichische Ludwig Wittgenstein Gesellshaft, (2003).
- "Philosophy as Profession" (pp. 241-255 in What Philosophy Is, eds. Havi Carel and David Gamez, London: Continuum Press, 2004.
- "Primo Levi on Language and Personhood: A Linguistic Odyssey" (with Linnea Vacca, pp. 115-130 in Memory and Mastery: Primo Levi as Writer and Witness, ed. Roberta Kramer, Albany: SUNY Press, 2001)
- "Moral Psychology and Persons" (Becoming Persons: Proceedings of the Second Conference on Persons, vol. 2, ed. Robert N. Fisher, Oxford: 1996.)
- "The Philosophical Life as Literature: Fictional Renditions of Wittgenstein" (The Cresset, vol. LVI, No. 6 (1993), pp. 5-11.)
- "The Task of a Theory of Meaning" (Metaphilosophy, vol. 21, no. 4 (1990) pp. 348-366.)