Dorothy Emmet

Dorothy Mary Emmet ( born September 29, 1904 in Kensington, London, † 20 September 2000 in Cambridge ) was a British philosopher who has established at the University of Manchester's Department of Philosophy and directed.

Life

Emmet was the eldest daughter of the pastor Cyril William Emmet and his wife Gertrude Julia, nee Weir. She had a younger sister and a younger brother. Her father was a lecturer in 1920 at University College, Oxford. Emmet attended the schools of St. Mary 's Hall, Brighton (1918-1923) and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford (1923-1926), where she heard among others William David Ross and Robin George Collingwood. After her studies she worked as a tutor and only in 1928 was appointed to the Radcliffe College at Harvard. There she attended a seminar with Alfred North Whitehead, whose philosophy she impressed. Upon her return in 1930 she taught at Somerville College, Oxford and in 1932 published her first book about " Whitehead 's Philosophy of Organism ". From 1932 she was a lecturer at Armstrong College in Newcastle -upon- Tyne, which later became the University of Newcastle. In 1938 she became a lecturer in philosophy of religion to Manchester. There, she was a professor of philosophy in 1945 and was appointed Professor of Sir Samuel Hall Professor of Philosophy in 1946. Between 1953 and 1954 she was President of the Aristotelian Society and in the years 1962 to 1964 she was as " Dean of Arts " of their University operates. In The Manchester Guardian, she published regularly book reviews. With her ​​retirement in 1966 Emmet moved to Cambridge and focused on their research. She was there a member of the "Moral Sciences Club", an emeritus professor at Lucy Cavendish College and co-editor of the journal " Theoria to Theory". She held several times lectures on philosophy in West Africa. This was followed up a few years before her death, a number of other books published.

Teaching

Emmet sat down with critical positivism apart and represented in the field of political philosophy socially engaged position, which had formed with her during her work as a tutor for unemployed workers already in the 1920s. Here she worked closely with other departments of the university, such as political science, economics, and anthropology. Colleagues here were Max Gluckman, Michael Polanyi and Arthur Norman Prior With Margaret Masterman (1910-1986) and her husband Richard Bevan Braithwaite was to show them a founding member of the " Epiphany Philosophers ", whose concern was that Christianity and philosophy not only are compatible with each other, but even need.

Works

• Whitehead 's Philosophy of Organism ( 1932) ( online at Internet Archive )
• The Nature of Metaphysical Thinking (1945 )
• Annual philosophical lecture to the British Academy ( 1949)
• The Stanton Lectures at 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 )