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Dorothy Mary Emmet ( / ? ? m ? t / ; 29 September 1904, Kensington , London ? 20 September 2000, Cambridge ) 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 . She was the doctoral advisor of Alasdair MacIntyre and Robert Austin Markus . Emmet was educated at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford, where she took first-class honours in 1927.

Positions held [ edit ]

• Commonwealth Fellowship at Radcliffe College
• Tutor at Somerville College, Oxford
• 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.
• Fellow, Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge in 1966

Publications [ edit ]

• 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 ).
• 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)

Sources [ edit ]

• Obituary: Dorothy Emmet The Guardian , 27 September 2000
• Dorothy Emmet Times obituary, 8 October 2000 ? archived by Wayback Machine
• James A. Bradley, Andre Cloots, Helmut Maaßen and Michel Weber (eds.), European Studies in Process Thought, Vol. I. In Memoriam Dorothy Emmet , Leuven, European Society for Process Thought, 2003 ( ISBN   3-8330-0512-2 ).
• Leemon McHenry, " Dorothy M. Emmet (1904?2000) ," in Michel Weber and Will Desmond (eds.). Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought (Frankfurt / Lancaster, Ontos Verlag, 2008, pp. 649 sq.). Cf. Ronny Desmet & Michel Weber (edited by), Whitehead. The Algebra of Metaphysics. Applied Process Metaphysics Summer Institute Memorandum , Louvain-la-Neuve, Les Editions Chromatika, 2010.
• Leemon McHenry, "EMMET, Dorothy Mary (1904?2000)" Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Philosophers , edited by Stuart Brown, Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 2005, pp. 266?268.

External links [ edit ]

• Works by or about Dorothy Emmet at Internet Archive

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