Sarah Broadie

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Sarah Broadie, FBA, FRSE, is Professor of Moral Philosophy and a Bishop Wardlaw Professor at the University of St Andrews. She has taught at the Universities of Edinburgh, Texas at Austin, Yale, Rutgers, and Princeton, before taking the Chair at St Andrews in 2001.

A specialist in Classical Philosophy, and recognised as a scholar of international distinction, she is interested in many areas of metaphysics and ethics, modern as well as ancient. It is her work on illuminating the work of Aristotle which has taken up the best part of her academic career and has established her international reputation. Professor Broadie was the only philosopher elected to the fellowship of the British Academy in 2003, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2003 she gave the Nellie Wallace lectures in the University of Oxford, entitled 'Nature and Divinity in the philosophies of Plato and Aristotle'.