Ann Clark

Professor Clark has a wide range of teaching interests that include the history of philosophy, contemporary feminist thought, classical American philosophy, and aesthetics. She has published in all of these areas, and is currently at work on a book that articulates a feminist pragmatism linking the work of John Dewey with that of recent feminist scholars. She has been the recipient of a number of teaching awards and research grants. The latter include a Lilly Open Fellowship, a Knight Foundation SISTAR grant for work with a student colleague, and, most recently, a COSTAR grant for work with a faculty colleague. She spent the 1996-1997 academic year as a visiting scholar at the University of British Columbia Center for Research in Gender and Women's Studies.

Professor McDonnell teaches courses in ethics and ancient and medieval philosophy, but his special love is biomedical ethics. He is co-author of two textbooks, Tough Decisions: A Casebook in Medical Ethics, (currently going into its second edition) and A Health Law Reader, and has authored many articles and papers in the field. He serves on various ethics and human rights committees in the local medical community, and is frequently called upon to give presentations to health care professionals and medical students. Professor McDonnell was the first recipient of the Edna and George McMahon Chair in Philosophy, and he directs a yearly symposium on Aquinas thought and its relevance to contemporary culture. Professor McDonnell is on sabbatical for the 2004-2005 school year.

Patricia Sayre

Professor Sayre teaches courses in metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of religion, philosophy of language, logic, and the history of philosophy. She has a special interest in the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein. Her publications are all, in one way or another, explorations of the terrain where questions about linguistic meaning intersect with questions about the meaning of life. She is currently at work on an introductory text on logic and incorporates history and philosophy into the standard technique, and hopes soon to begin work on a book on the problem of the other minds treated as an existential difficulty. She has been the recipient of the college's teaching award, a Knight Foundation SISTAR grant for work with a student colleague, a Coolidge Research Fellowship, and is on the steering committee for the International Forum on Persons.

George Trey

Professor Trey teaches courses in contemporary social thought as well as the history of modern philosophy, and is an active contributor to the Justice Education Program at Saint Mary's. He is the author of numerous scholarly papers that intersect with a wide range of political thinkers, but his area of special expertise is critical theory in the European tradition. He has a book recently out from SUNY press, Solidarity and Difference: The Politics of Enlightment in the Aftermath of Modernity, and is currently at work on its sequel. In addition to his scholarly publications, which tackle the theory of political discourse, he also contributes regularly to the on-going practice of that discourse through publications directed at broader, non-academic audiences.

Mario De Caro

Professor De Caro has been teaching for several years in the Saint Mary's Rome program, offering courses in introductory philosophy, Renaissance philosophy, and on the problem of free will. In the spring of 1998, he spent a semester teaching on the Saint Mary's home campus. He has published two books recently on the work of Donald Davidson, and is currently working on the determinism free will controversy (with reference to the moral responsibility issue) and on topics in the philosophy of the mind (reductionism, mental causation). He has been a visiting scholar at MIT and a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Harvard.