Sarah Broadie
British historian of philosophy (1941–2021)
Sarah Jean Broadie (née Waterlow; 3 November 1941 – 8 August 2021) was a British philosopher, a Professor of Moral Philosophy and Wardlaw Professor at the University of St Andrews. Broadie specialised in ancient philosophy, with a particular emphasis on Aristotle and Plato. Her work engages with metaphysics and both ancient and contemporary ethics. She achieved numerous honours throughout her career as an academic philosopher. Broadie studied Greats at Somerville College, Oxford, graduating in 1960. Previously she worked at the University of Edinburgh, University of Texas at Austin, Yale, Rutgers, and Princeton.
Awards and honours
Broadie's first major honour came in 1990 when she was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2002, she was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Broadie was invited to give the Nellie Wallace Lectures at the University of Oxford in 2003. Her series was titled, 'Nature and Divinity in the Philosophies of Plato and Aristotle.' In the same year Broadie was also elected as a Fellow of the British Academy.
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