Dr Sarah Patterson
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Overview
Overview
Biography
Sarah Patterson is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy. Before coming to Birkbeck in 1994, she held Assistant Professor appointments at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), Harvard University and Tufts University.
Qualifications
- BA (Hons) Philosophy and Physiology, University of Oxford, 1981
- PhD, Philosophy, MIT, 1988
Administrative responsibilities
- Programme Director, MA/PGCertificate/PGDiploma in Philosophy
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Supervision and teaching
Supervision and teaching
Supervision
Current doctoral researchers
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ALISTAIR SHAW
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KARIM-PASHA LADBON
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LAUREN SLATER
Doctoral alumni since 2013-14
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MAGNUS FRIED
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Publications
Publications
Article
- Patterson, Sarah (2016) Descartes on the errors of the senses. Philosophy 78, pp. 73-108. ISSN 0031-8191.
- Patterson, Sarah (2013) I-Descartes on nature, habit and the corporeal world. Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 87 (1), pp. 235-258. ISSN 0309-7013.
- Patterson, Sarah (2012) Doubt and human nature in Descartes's Meditations. Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 70, pp. 189-217. ISSN 1358-2461.
- Patterson, Sarah (2010) Descartes’s appeal to divine veracity. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research ISSN 1933-1592.
- Patterson, Sarah (2010) Nature and habit: the case for mechanism in Descartes’s Meditations. Journal of the History of Philosophy ISSN 0022-5053.
- Patterson, Sarah (2005) Epiphenomenalism and occasionalism: problems of mental causation, old and new. History of Philosophy Quarterly 22 (3), pp. 239-257. ISSN 0740-0675.
Book Section
- Patterson, Sarah (2010) Clear and distinct perception. In: Broughton, J. and Carriero, J. (eds.) A Companion to Descartes. Wiley Blackwell. pp. 216-234. ISBN 9781444337846.
- Patterson, Sarah (2000) How Cartesian was Descartes?. In: Crane, T. and Patterson, Sarah (eds.) History of the Mind-Body Problem. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. pp. 70-110. ISBN 9780415242363.