Dorothy Emmet
British philosopher
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| Intro | British philosopher | |
| A.K.A. | Dorothy Mary Emmet Dorothy M. Emmet | |
| A.K.A. | Dorothy Mary Emmet Dorothy M. Emmet | |
| Places | United Kingdom Great Britain | |
| was | Philosopher Educator | |
| Work field | Academia Philosophy | |
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| Birth | 29 September 1904, Kensington, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, Greater London, England | |
| Death | 20 September 2000Cambridge, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, East of England (aged 96 years) | |
| Star sign | Libra |
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Biography
Dorothy Mary Emmet (/ˈɛmɪt/; 29 September 1904 – 20 September 2000) 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.
Positions held
- Commonwealth Fellowship at Radcliffe College
- Lecturer in philosophy at Armstrong College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne (now Newcastle University) in 1932
- She joined Manchester University as a lecturer in the philosophy of religion in 1938. She was named reader in philosophy in 1945 and was appointed Sir Samuel Hall professor of philosophy in 1946.
- President of the Aristotelian Society in 1953-54.
Publications
- Whitehead's Philosophy of Organism (1932)
- The Nature of Metaphysical Thinking (1945)
- Annual philosophical lecture to the British Academy (1949)
- The Stanton lectures in Cambridge (1950–53)
- Function, Purpose and Powers (1958)
- Rules, Roles and Relations (1966)
- Sociological Theory and Philosophical Analysis (1970; co-edited with Alasdair MacIntyre).
- 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)