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Professor Sayre, who taught philosophy at the University of Notre Dame for a remarkable 56 years, was well-known for his work on Plato, environmental and applied ethics topics, and artifical intelligence. The Notre Dame memorial notice is here.
Comments are open for remembrances from those who knew Professor Sayre.
(Thanks to Sam Newlands for the pointer.)
Many years ago, when Dr. Sayre was a visiting professor at BGSU, he convinced me to change my undergraduate major from psychology to philosophy by telling me to "do the philosophy of psychology." As he continued, "that way you can read all the interesting stuff and not have to do the boring stuff." I now use this to try to get my own students to switch majors.
He was a wonderful person and a wonderful professor.
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