Dr Sarah Patterson
Email: s.patterson@bbk.ac.uk
Sarah Patterson received her BA degree from Oxford and her PhD from MIT. She taught at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, at Harvard University, and at Tufts University before coming to Birkbeck.
Research interests
Her research interests lie in early modern philosophy, philosophy of mind and philosophy of psychology. She is particularly interested in the historical origins of problems central to contemporary philosophy of mind, and in the history and methodology of psychology. Her current work focuses on Descartes's philosophy of mind.
Areas of research supervision
Philosophy of mind; philosophy of psychology; early modern philosophy.
Selected articles
- 'The Anomalism of Psychology' Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (1996) 96: 37-52
- 'Success-Orientation and Individualism in Marr's Theory of Vision' in K. Akins (ed.), Perception. Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science, Vol. 5. Oxford University Press, 1996, pp. 248-267
- 'Competence and the Classical Cascade: A Reply to Franks' British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (1998) 49: 625-636
- History of the Mind-Body Problem, edited with Tim Crane (Routledge, 2000)
- 'Epiphenomenalism and Occasionalism: Problems of Mental Causation, Old and New' History of Philosophy Quarterly (2005) 22: 239-257
- 'Clear and Distinct Perception' in J. Broughton and J. Carriero (eds.), A Companion to Descartes. Blackwell, 2007, pp. 216-234
- 'Philosophy of Mind' in D. Moran (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Twentieth Century Philosophy. Routledge, 2008, pp. 525-582
