Dr. Laura Byrne

                                                           Nicholson Hall 506
                                                        Tel. 867-2119 / Fax. 867-3243
                                                       lbyrne@stfx.ca

                                         Descartes and Queen Christina

 

Dr. Byrne is on leave until July 2009

Courses:

Philosophy 100	Introduction to Philosophy
Philosophy 230	Philosophy of Human Nature
Philosophy 310	History of Modern Philosophy
Philosophy 399	Topics And Themes In The History Of Modern

 

Education:

McGill University (BA, First Class Honours in Philosophy)
University of Nice, France (graduate studies in philosophy)
University of Toronto (MA, 1981 and PhD 1987)

I have taught at the University of Toronto, Dalhousie University, the University of King’s College, Halifax, and St. F.X.

Publications:

My publications include articles on the application of formal logic to descriptions of social change (Logic on the Track of Social Change, D. Braybrooke, B. Brown, and P. Schotch with Laura Byrne (Oxford:  Clarendon Press, 1995); Spinoza ("Reason and Emotion in Spinoza's Ethics: The Two Infinities," in  Spinoza: The Enduring Questions, ed. G. Hunter (Toronto:  University of Toronto Press, 1994);  Nietzsche ("System and Contemporary Aspiration: A Hegelian Critique of Nietzsche," in A Sense of the Contemporary (Halifax: The King's Institute for Advanced Study, 1989); feminism and philosophy ("The Self as Concrete Universal," in Atlantis: A Woman's Studies Journal, Spring, 1988); and Hegel ("Hegel's Criticism of Spinoza's Concept of the Attribute," in Essays on Hegel's Logic, ed. George diGiovanni (Albany: SUNY Press, 1990)).

Current Research: 

I am currently writing a paper on the history of the geometrical method in philosophy and Spinoza’s use of it in his Ethics.

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