Narrative Knowing: Sarah Worth at TEDxFurmanU

Sarah Worth received her undergraduate degree at Furman University with a double major in Philosophy and Music. She went on to earn her MA in Philosophy from the University of Louisville and her PhD in Philosophy from the State university of New York at Buffalo. She began teaching at Furman in 1999 after teaching at Allegheny College and Miami University. Glad to return to her alma mater, she has been teaching classes in Ancient Philosophy, Aesthetics, Philosophy of Literature, Philosophy of Mind, and is teaching a Philosophy of Food class for the first time this semester. Her real joy in teaching is being able to get students to see the world from a different perspective and think in ways they have never thought about before. She sees her academic work as always stemming from core issues in aesthetics and its applications where she writes about narrative, distinctions between fiction and nonfiction, why we cry at movies, and the ways in which stories shape our lives. Her work has appeared in national and international journals, including the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, the British Journal of Aesthetics and the Journal of Aesthetic Eduction. She has also published in works about popular culture, including articles about Seinfeld, The Matrix, Dungeons and Dragons, and Dexter. She lives in Greenville with her husband and twin 7 year old boys.

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