Dorothy Emmet
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Dorothy Mary Emmet was a British philosopher
and head of Manchester University's philosophy department for over twenty years. With Margaret Masterman
and Richard Braithwaite
she was a founder member of the Epiphany Philosophers.
Philosophy
Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...
and head of Manchester University's philosophy department for over twenty years. With Margaret Masterman
Margaret Masterman
Margaret Masterman was a British linguist and philosopher, most known for her pioneering work in the field of computational linguistics and especially machine translation.- Biography :...
and Richard Braithwaite
Richard Braithwaite
Richard Braithwaite or Brathwait was an English poet.He was born near Kendal, and educated at Oxford. He is believed to have served with the Royalist army in the Civil War...
she was a founder member of the Epiphany Philosophers.
Positions held
- president of the Aristotelian SocietyAristotelian SocietyThe Aristotelian Society for the Systematic Study of Philosophy was founded at a meeting on 19 April 1880, at 17 Bloomsbury Square which resolved "to constitute a society of about twenty and to include ladies; the society to meet fortnightly, on Mondays at 8 o'clock, at the rooms of the Spelling...
in 1953-54. - In 1938, she was appointed lecturer in the philosophy of religion at Manchester, becoming reader in philosophy in 1945 and the Sir Samuel Hall professor of philosophy in 1946.
- appointed lecturer in philosophy at Armstrong College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne (now Newcastle University) in 1932
- temporary teaching post at Somerville College, Oxford
- Commonwealth Fellowship at Radcliffe CollegeRadcliffe CollegeRadcliffe College was a women's liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was the coordinate college for Harvard University. It was also one of the Seven Sisters colleges. Radcliffe College conferred joint Harvard-Radcliffe diplomas beginning in 1963 and a formal merger agreement with...
Publications
- Whitehead's Philosophy of Organism (1932)
- The Nature of Metaphysical Thinking (1945)
- Annual philosophical lecture to the British AcademyBritish AcademyThe British Academy is the United Kingdom's national body for the humanities and the social sciences. Its purpose is to inspire, recognise and support excellence in the humanities and social sciences, throughout the UK and internationally, and to champion their role and value.It receives an annual...
(1949) - The Stanton lectures in Cambridge (1950-53)
- Function, Purpose and Powers (1958)
- Rules, Roles and Relations (1966)
- In The Moral Prism (1979)
- The Effectiveness of Causes (1986)
- The Passage of Nature (1992)
- The Role of the Unrealisable (1994)
- Philosophers and Friends: Reminiscences of 70 Years in Philosophy (1996)