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Patrick Byrne

Patrick Byrne started in the Boston College Philosophy Department in 1975. He is currently the chairperson of the department and Director of the Lonergan Forum at Boston College. He has also served as Director of Graduate Studies in Philosophy.

He was a Senior Lilly Fellows in 1995, and has also been a Woodrow Wilson Fellow. He won the Hamilton Award for Science and Humanities in 1969. Byrne is author of Analysis and Science in Aristotle,(Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1997). He earned his Ph. D. in Philosophy from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1978.