Dorothy Emmet

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.

• 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.

• 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)