Dr. Mary Sirridge

Professor
Philosophy & Religious Studies

PhD: Ohio State University

Phone: (225) 578- 2276

Office: 112 Coatesv

Area of Interest

Logic, philosophy of language, and philosophical linguistics in ancient and medieval intellectual work.

Awards & Honors

LSU Alumni Association Distinguished Faculty Award, 1991
Sternberg Honors Professor 2001-2002
Alpha Lambda Delta Freshman Honor Society Freshman Instruction Award 2002, 2009

Selected Publications

Articles Published: Medieval

"The Theory of Propositions in William of Sherwood's Treatise on Syncategorematic Words," Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, XV (July, 1974), 462-64.

"Augustine: 'Every Word is a Name'," The New Scholasticism, Spring, 1976, 183-96.

"St. Augustine and the Deputy Theory," Augustinian Studies, 1976,

"Buridan: 'Every Proposition is False' is False," Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, XIX (July, 1978), 397-404.

"Socrates' Hood: Lexical Meaning and Syntax in Jordanus and Kilwardby," Cahiers de l'institut du moyen-age grec et latin. Special 25th anniversary edition, 1983, 102-121.

"Institutiones Grammaticae XVIII.187: Three Medieval Reactions," L'heritage des Grammariens latins de l'antiquite aux lumieres. Ed. Iréne Rosier. Paris, 1988, pp. 171-180.

"Robert Kilwardby as Scientific Grammarian," Histoire, Epistemologie, Langage, X.1, pp. 7-28.

"Robert Kilwardby: Figurative Constructions and the Limits of Grammar," in De Ortu Grammaticae, ed. Bursill-Hall & Ebbesen, John Benjamins: 1990, pp. 321-337.

"Can est Be Used Impersonally? A Clue to the Understanding of the Verbum Substantivum," Histoire, Epistemologie, Langage, 12, fasc. 2 (1990), 121-138.

"Robert Kilwardby: The Verbum Substantivum," Archives et Documents, 2nd. serie, no. 4 (December, 1990), 61-64.

"’Interest mea et imperatoris castam ducere in uxorem’: Can 'est' Be Used Impersonally?" The Sophism in Medieval Logic and Semantics, ed. S. Read, Kluwer: 1993. pp. 262-276.

"Robert Kilwardby and John of Denmark: Two "Aristotelian Grammarians," Geschichte der Sprachphilosophie II, Spatantike und Mittelalter, ed. S. Ebbesen. 1995. 109-134.

"As It Is, It Is an Ax: Some Medieval Reflections on De Aima II.1,"Medieval Philosophy and Theology 6 (1997), 1-24.

"The Wailing of Orphans and Cooing of Doves: The Influence of Augustine's Theory of Language on Some Medieval Theories of the Interjection," Vestigia, Imagines, Verba: Semiotics and Logic in Medieval Theological Texts (XIIth-XIVth Century), Bologna: 1997, pp. 99-116.

Quam videndo intus dicimus: Seeing and Saying in De Trinitate XV, Medieval Analyses in Language and Cognition: Acts of the Symposium AThe Copenhagen School of Medieval Philosophy, 2nd ed., Sten Ebbesen & Russell L. Friedman. The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. Reitzels: Copenhagen 1999. 317-330.

Augustine's Two Theories of Language, Documenti e Studi Sulla Tradizione Filosofica Medievale XV (2000), ed. R. Lambertini. 35-57.

The Pupils of the Master of Abstractions: Abstractiones Digbianae, Regiae & Venetae, with Paul Streveler and Sten Ebbesen, Cahiers de l'Institut du Moyen-Age Grec et Latin 74 (2003), 89-150.
“Dream Bodies and Dream Pains in Augustine’s De Natura et Origine Animae,” Vivarium 43.2 (Fall, 2005), 1-37.

“Utrum idem sint dicere et intelligere sive videre in mente”: Robert Kilwardby, Quaestiones in librum primum Sententiarum,” Vivarium 45 (2007) 253-268.

The Universal Thing is Either Nothing or Posterior: Radulphus Brito=s Questiones Super Libros De Anima,” in Mind, Cognition and Representation: The Commentary Tradition of Aristotle's “De Anima,” eds. Paul Bakker, Johannes Thijssen - Ashgate, 2008.
“Verbum Substantivum, Verbum Vocativum: Performative or Fact Stating,” Mind Matters: Studies of Early Modern Intellectual History in Honour of Marcia Colish, ed. C. Nederman. Brepols, 2010.

“The Abstractiones: A Tradition in Evolution,” Bulletin de Philosophie Médiévale 53 (2011), Société Internationale pour L’Étude de la Philosophie Mediévale 2011. 61-80.

Articles: Aesthetics and Philosophy in Literature

"Truth From Fiction?" Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, XXXV.4 (June, 1975), 543-571.

"J.R.R. Tolkien and Fairy Tale Truth," British Journal of Aesthetics, XV (Winter, 1976), 183-196.

"The In's and Out's of Dance: Expression as an aspect of Style," Dance," The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism XXXVI/1, (Fall, 1977), pp. 15-24. With Adina Armelagos.

"The Identity Crisis in Dance," The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, XXXVII (Winter, 1978), pp. 129-139. With Adina Armelagos.

"Artistic Autonomy and Critical Prerogative," The British Journal of Aesthetics, XVIII (Fall, 1977), 137-154.

"The Moral of the Story: Exemplification and the Literary Work," Philosophical Studies, 38 (1980), 391-402.

"The Role of "Natural Expressiveness In Explaining Dance," The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, XLI/3 (Spring, 983), pp. 301-307. With Adina Armelagos.

"Donkeys, Stars, and Illocutionary Acts," The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, XLV/4 (Summer, 1987), pp. 381-388.

"The Good, The Bad and the Counterfeit: A Tolstoyan Theory of Television Narrative," in The Meaning of the Medium: Perspectives on the Art of Television, ed. Katherine Henderson. Praeger Press:1990. pp. 103-127.

Essay Review of Martha Nussbaum, Love's Knowledge: Essays on Philosophy and Literature, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 50.1 (Winter, 1991), pp. 61-65.

Philosophical Themes in the Fiction of Simone de Beauvoir: Loss and Recovery in L'invitée, Cambridge Companion to Simone de Beauvoir, ed. C. Card. Cambridge University Press: 2002.
pp. 129-148.

“Obscure Destinies and Moments of Grace,” Aging and Dying in Willa Cather’s Fiction. Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial & Educational Foundation, Red Cloud, Nebraska, 2005 10-16. (invited contribution)

“The Treachery of the Commonplace,” Philosophy in the Twilight Zone, eds. L. Hunt & N. Carroll, Blackwell, 2008.

Editions Published

Notulae super Priscianum Minorem Jordani. University of Copenhagen: 1980. Cahiers de l'Institut du moyen-age grec et latin 36. A critical edition of a Latin Medieval work based on four manuscripts, with an introduction, notes, and analytical index.