Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Philosophic Institute

Education:
A.B., Mathematics, Grinnell College, 1952
M.A., Philosophy, Harvard University, 1954
Ph.D., Philosophy, Harvard University, 1958 

Areas of expertise: Plato; Environmental Philosophy; Philosophy of Mind

Select books:

• Belief and Knowledge: Mapping the Cognitive Landscape, 1997
• Metaphysics and Method in Plato’s Statesman, 2006
• Unearthed: The Economic Roots of our Environmental Crisis, 2010

Recent articles:

• "Do Forms Have a Role in Plato's Philebus? in Plato's Forms: Varieties of Interpretations", ed. William Weldon (2002)
• "The Multilayered Incoherence of Timaeus' Receptacle," in Plato's Timaeus as Cultural Icon ed., Gretchen Reydams-Schils (2004)
• "Several References in Plato to the Indefinite Dyad," in Aristotle on Plato: The Metaphysical Question, ed. Apostolos Pierris (2004)
• "The Method Revisited: Parmenides 135E9-136C6," in Plato's Parmenides: Proceedings of the Fourth Symposium Platonicum Pragense, eds. Ales Havlicek and Filip Karfik (2005)
• "Dialectic by Negation in Three Dialogues," in Reading Ancient Texts, v. 1, eds. Suzanne Stern-Gillet and Kevin Corrigan (2007)
• Four entries in Continuum Guide to Philosophy, ed. Gerald Press (2011)

Office: 302 Malloy Hall
E-mail: ksayre@nd.edu
Website: philosophy.nd.edu/people/faculty/kenneth-sayre/ or www3.nd.edu/~philinst/