Kenneth Sayre
Professor of Philosophy Emeritus
Contact Information:
Mailing Address:
Department of Philosophy
University of Notre Dame
100 Malloy Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Phone: (574) 631-7124
E-Mail: ksayre@nd.edu
Office: 302 Malloy
Education
Ph.D., Harvard
Areas of Interest
Plato, Environmental Philosophy
Profile
Complexities Of Religious Belief (2019)
Recent Articles:
- Four entries in Continuum Guide to Philosophy, ed. Gerald Press (2011)
- "Dialectic by Negation in Three Dialogues," in Reading Ancient Texts, v. 1, eds. Suzanne Stern-Gillet and Kevin Corrigan (2007)
- "The Method Revisited: Parmenides 135E9-136C6," in Plato's Parmenides: Proceedings of the Fourth Symposium Platonicum Pragense, eds. Ales Havlicek and Filip Karfik (2005)
- "Several References in Plato to the Indefinite Dyad," in Aristotle on Plato: The Metaphysical Question, ed. Apostolos Pierris (2004)
- "The Multilayered Incoherence of Timaeus' Receptacle," in Plato's Timaeus as Cultural Icon ed., Gretchen Reydams-Schils (2004)
- "Do Forms Have a Role in Plato's Philebus? in Plato's Forms: Varieties of Interpretations", ed. William Weldon (2002)
- "The Role of the Timaeus in the Development of Plato's Late Ontology," Ancient Philosophy (1998)
Books:
- Adventures in Philosophy at Notre Dame, University of Notre Dame Press (2014)
- Unearthed: The Economic Roots of our Ecological Crisis (2010)
- Metaphysics and Method in Plato's Statesman, forthcoming (2006)
- Belief and Knowledge: Mapping the Cognitive Landscape (1997)
- Parmenides' Lesson: Translation and Explication of Plato's Parmenides (1996)
- Plato's Literary Garden: How to Read a Platonic Dialogue (1995)
- Plato's Late Ontology: A Riddle Resolved (1983), reprinted (2005)
- Reason and Decision, edited with M. Bradie (1982)
- Regulation, Values and the Public Interest, co-authored (1980)
- Ethics and Problems of the 21st Century, edited with K. Goodpaster (1979)
- Values in the Electric Power Industry, editor (1977)
- Starburst (1977)
- Moonflight (1977)
- Cybernetics and the Philosophy of Mind (1976)
- Plato's Analytic Method (1969)
- Consciousness: A Philosophic Study of Artificial Intelligence (1969)
- Philosophy and Cybernetics, edited with F.J. Crosson (1967)
- Recognition: A Study in the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence (1965)
- The Modeling of Mind, edited with F.J. Crosson (1963)
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