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Sarah Broadie
(1941 - 2021)

Last affiliation: University of St. Andrews
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St Andrews, FIfe, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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    Aristotle’s Philosophy of Action (review)
    International Studies in Philosophy 20 (1): 68-70. 1988.
    Aristotle: Ethics
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    Aristotle and contemporary ethics
    In Richard Kraut (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 342--361. 2008.
    The prelims comprise: Flourishing Ethical Epistemology, Ethical Realism Deciding What is Right Systematizing the Principles of Quotidian Conduct? One Neglected Aristotelian Theme Notes Reference Further reading.
    Aristotle: Ethics
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    The Ancient Greeks
    In Helen Beebee, Christopher Hitchcock & Peter Menzies (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Causation, Oxford University Press Uk. 2009.
    There are various motives for refining the notion of cause. Aristotle's was an interest in providing the most informative and illuminating method of explaining the central natural phenomena of his universe. A different sort of motive is created by problems of free will and responsibility, of which readers may have been reminded by the reference to indeterminism. The thought that our free and responsible behaviour is caused by factors over which we have no control has often seemed impossible to a…Read more