Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock

Helen Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock, of Weeke in the City of Winchester DBE FBA (birth name: Helen Mary Wilson, born April 14, 1924 in Winchester ) is a British philosopher, teacher, high school teacher and author who in her work and her writings dealt with issues of ethics, education, theory, philosophy of mind as well as existentialism and since 1985 as a non-party (Cross Bencher ) is a member of the House of Lords. Their published in 1978 Warnock Report: Special Educational Needs it is considered the founder of Special Education in the UK.

Life

Family, study, career and marriage

Mary Wilson, daughter of a teacher coming from Scotland for the German language at Winchester College, graduated after attending the St Swithun 's School in Winchester studied philosophy at the Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford. After finishing her studies she was 1949-1966 Fellow and Tutor at St Hugh's College, University of Oxford. Her older brother was the diplomat Archibald Duncan Wilson, who was among others ambassador to Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union, 1971-1980 Head (Master) of Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge.

In 1949 she married the philosopher Geoffrey Warnock, with whom she had five children. Geoffrey Warnock was later 1971-1988 director ( principal) of Hertford College, and also served as Vice - Chancellor of the University of Oxford from 1981 to 1985.

Subsequently, she served from 1966 to 1972 as a principal of Oxford High School, a resident of Oxford girls' school. In 1972, she returned to her alma mater, the Lady Margaret Hall, back, and worked there as Talbot Research Fellow until 1976.

Investigations on behalf of the government and the so-called Warnock Reports

At this time, took Mary Warnock, who dealt in their research and writings with issues of ethics, education, theory, philosophy of mind as well as existentialism, numerous offices in public organizations and institutions such as 1972-1983 as a member of the Independent Broadcasting Authority (Independent Broadcasting Authority ) and from 1974 to 1978 as chairman of the committee of inquiry into the teaching of children and young people with disabilities (Committee of inquiry into the Education of handicapped children and young people). As a result of their studies was 1978, the Warnock Report: Special Educational Needs.

In 1976 she moved back to the St Hugh's College, where she now until 1984 worked as a Senior Research Fellow. During this time she was on a 1979-1984 member of the Royal Commission on environmental pollution ( Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, and on the other from 1982 to 1984 Chairman of the Committee of Inquiry into Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Committee of Inquiry on Human Fertilization and Embryology ). Here, too, she wrote an extensive Warnock Report, which later led to the adoption of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 and the establishment of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority ( HFEA ).

House of Lords member and head of Girton College

Mary Warnock then headed 1984-1989, the committee of the Interior Ministry on animal experiments (Home Office Committee on Animal Experimentation ) and in 1984 an Honorary Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, and in 1985 the St Hugh 's College.

On February 6, 1985, she was raised by a Letters Patent as Life Peeress with the title Baroness Warnock of Weeke in the City of Winchester to the peerage. On March 27, 1985, their introduction ( Introduction) as a member of the House of Lords. In the upper house it belongs to the group of non-party peers, the so-called Cross Bencher.

In 1986 she became head of Girton College, one of the colleges of the University of Cambridge, and held this post until 1989. Awarded the 1987 University of Bath her ​​an Honorary Doctorate ( Honorary Doctor of Letters ).

Baroness Warnock, who was between 1998 and 2001 Chairman of the Panel on Medical Ethics of the Archbishop of Canterbury, since 1998, Chairman of the Advisory Board on questions of looting of evidence. 2000 was their call to a visiting professor of rhetoric at Gresham College.

In 2005, she called in the context of their Warnock Report, published in 1978 a reconsideration of inclusion and sat down in an interview in 2010 with this issue critically. In this interview, she described children as victims of " institutional pessimism ".

2008 sparked Baroness Warnock, who is a staunch advocate of euthanasia, a public controversy by their view from that people with dementia should be allowed to choose to die if they felt that they were " a burden on their families or the state " would.

In 2010 she was voted by the daily newspaper The Times to the group of five leading scientific ethicists in Britain.

Publications

  • Ethics Since 1900 ( Oxford University Press, 1960) ISBN 0-9753662 -2-X
  • Existentialism (Oxford Paperbacks, 1970) ISBN 0-19-888052-9
  • Imagination (1976 )
  • Schools of Thought ( Faber and Faber, 1977) ISBN 0-571-11161-0
  • Memory (1987 )
  • Imagination & Time ( Blackwell Publishers, 1994) ISBN 0-631-19019-8
  • Mary Warnock: A Memoir - People and Places ( Duckworth, 2001) ISBN 0-7156-2955-7 ISBN 0-7156-3141-1 &
  • Making Babies: Is There a Right to Have Children? (2001)
  • The Intelligent Person's Guide to Ethics ( 1998)
  • Nature and Mortality: Recollections of a Philosopher in Public Life (2004), ISBN 0-8264-7323-7
  • An Intelligent Person 's Guide to Ethics ( Duckworth, 2004) ISBN 0-7156-3320-1
  • Easeful Death, co-author Elizabeth MacDonald ( OUP, 2008)
  • Dishonest to God: On Keeping Religion Out of Politics ( Continuum, 2010) ISBN 978-1-4411-2712-9
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