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Mary Margaret McCabe
Mary Margaret Anne McCabe (born 18 December 1948), known as M. M. McCabe, is emerita professor of ancient philosophy at King's College London. She has written books on Plato and other ancient philosophers, including the pre-Socratics, Socrates and Aristotle. Early life McCabe was educated at Oxford High School for Girls, and then studied at Newnham College, University of Cambridge, taking her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1970 and her Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1977 in classics. Her doctoral thesis, ''Plato's Theory of Punishment and Its Antecedents'', formed the basis of her first book, ''Plato on Punishment'', published in 1981. Academic career From 1981 to 1990 McCabe was Fellow in Classics at New Hall, University of Cambridge. She joined King's College London in 1990 and retired from her chair in Ancient Philosophy in 2014. She is now Keeling Scholar and Honorary Professor in Philosophy at University College London, and a Bye-Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Beddoe
Martin William Denton Beddoe (born 7 July 1955) is a British Circuit judge (England and Wales), judge known for having presided over many high-profile criminal cases. He is a former Crown Court Recorder, member of the Parole Board of England and Wales and a tutor judge of the Judicial College. In March 2013, he was one of the judges appointed to hear an inquest into the death of Bethlem Royal Hospital#Fatal restraint on Olaseni Lewis, Olaseni Lewis. Early life Beddoe came from a military family. He was born in Abyad, Egypt, where his father, World War II veteran Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Beddoe was serving at the time of his birth. His father had a very distinguished military career, and before his posting to Egypt, he was an infantry battalion commanding officer in the Welsh Regiment during the Second World War. Judge Beddoe takes pride in his Welsh heritage. Career at the Bar Beddoe was educated at Tonbridge School and Peterhouse, Cambridge. He was called to the bar as a me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murray Edwards College, Cambridge
Murray Edwards College is a women-only constituent college of the University of Cambridge. It was founded in 1954 as New Hall and renamed in 2008. The name honours a gift of £30 million by alumna Ros Edwards and her husband Steve, and the first President and woman Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, Rosemary Murray. History New Hall was founded in 1954, housing sixteen students in Silver Street where Darwin College now stands. Cambridge then had the lowest proportion of women undergraduates of any university in the United Kingdom and only two other colleges ( Girton and Newnham) admitted female students. In 1962, members of the Darwin family gave their home, "The Orchard", to the College. This new site was located on Huntingdon Road, about a mile from the centre of Cambridge. The architects chosen were Chamberlin, Powell and Bon, who are known for their design of the Barbican in London, and fundraising commenced. The building work began in 1964 and w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brad Hooker
Brad Hooker (born 13 September 1957) is a British-American philosopher who specialises in moral philosophy. He is a professor at the University of Reading and is best known for his work defending rule consequentialism (often treated as being synonymous with rule utilitarianism). His book ''Ideal Code, Real World'' received a number of favourable reviews from high-profile philosophers. Derek Parfit, for example, wrote: "This book seems to me the best statement and defence, so far, of one of the most important moral theories." Education Hooker initially studied philosophy at Princeton University before pursuing his BPhil and DPhil at the University of Oxford The University of Oxford is a collegiate university, collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the List of oldest un ... from 1981 to 1986, where he was a member of St Anne's College, and w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philosophy Bites
''Philosophy Bites'' is a podcast series featuring philosophers being interviewed for 15–20 minutes on a specific topic. The series, which has been running since 2007, is hosted by Nigel Warburton, freelance lecturer, and David Edmonds, and has featured interviews with guests including Barry C. Smith, Simon Blackburn, A. C. Grayling, Martha Nussbaum, Peter Singer, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Michael Dummett, Tzvetan Todorov, David Chalmers David John Chalmers (; born 20 April 1966) is an Australian philosopher and cognitive scientist, specializing in philosophy of mind and philosophy of language. He is a professor of philosophy and neural science at New York University, as well ..., and C. A. J. Coady. The podcast has been one of the top 20 most downloaded series in the United States and has over 34 million downloads. Books Several of the episodes have been transcribed and compiled into three books, all published by Oxford University Press: *''Philosophy Bit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melissa Lane
Melissa Lane is an American academic and professor at Princeton University, where she holds the Class of 1943 professorship in the Department of Politics. She graduated ''summa cum laude'' from Harvard University in 1989 with a degree in Social Studies and later earned a M.Phil and Ph.D. in Philosophy from Cambridge University, where she also served as a lecturer. Lane joined Princeton's faculty in 2009. Throughout her career, she has received numerous honors, including a Marshall Scholarship, Truman Scholarship, Guggenheim Fellowship in 2012, and the Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize in 2015. A political theorist, Lane specializes in ancient Greek political thought and its modern significance. Early life and education Lane attended public schools in Los Angeles, California, serving as a student member of the California State Board of Education. She graduated ''summa cum laude'' from Harvard University with a degree in Social Studies in 1989. She briefly worked as an aide and spee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Proceedings Of The Aristotelian Society
The Aristotelian Society for the Systematic Study of Philosophy, more generally known as the Aristotelian Society, is a philosophical society in London. History Aristotelian Society was founded at a meeting on 19 April 1880, at 17 Bloomsbury Square, London. It resolved "to constitute a society of about twenty and to include ladies; the society to meet fortnightly, on Mondays at 8 o'clock, at the rooms of the Spelling Reform Association…" The rules of the society stipulated: According to H. Wildon Carr, in choosing a name for the society, it was: The society's first president was Shadworth H. Hodgson. He was president for fourteen years from 1880 until 1894, when he proposed Dr. Bernard Bosanquet as his replacement. Professor Alan Willard Brown noted in 1947 that 'he Societys members were not all men of established intellectual position. It welcomed young minds just out of university as well as older amateur philosophers with serious interests and purposes. But many dist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Proceedings Of The Boston Area Colloquium In Ancient Philosophy
In academia and librarianship, conference proceedings are a collection of academic papers published in the context of an academic conference or workshop. Conference proceedings typically contain the contributions made by researchers at the conference. They are the written record of the work that is presented to fellow researchers. In many fields, they are published as supplements to academic journals; in some, they are considered the main dissemination route; in others they may be considered grey literature. They are usually distributed in printed or electronic volumes, either before the conference opens or after it has closed. A less common, broader meaning of proceedings are the acts and happenings of an academic field, a learned society. For example, the title of the ''Acta Crystallographica'' journals is Neo-Latin for "Proceedings in Crystallography"; the ''Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America'' is the main journal of that academy. Sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Sheppard
Anne Sheppard is professor of ancient philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London. She studied " Greats", (classics and philosophy), at St Anne's College, Oxford before completing her DPhil at Oxford on the literary theory of the Neoplatonist philosopher, Proclus. Sheppard's research interests relate to the interaction between philosophy and literature. Royal Holloway, University of London. Retrieved 29 May 2015. Selected publications *''The Poetics of Phantasia: Imagination in Ancient Aesthetics'', Sheppard, A. 13 Mar 2014 London: Bloomsbury Academic. *''Ancient Approaches to Plato's Republic'', Sheppard, A. (ed.) Jul 2013 London: |
Robert Sharples (classicist)
Professor Robert William (Bob) Sharples (28 May 1949 – 11 August 2010) was a British educator and authority on ancient Greek philosophy. He was a member of the department of Greek and Latin at University College London for over 30 years, and won international distinction for his work in ancient philosophy, especially physics (or "natural philosophy") and in the Peripatetic tradition after Aristotle. His pioneering interest in previously under-studied figures such as Alexander of Aphrodisias led the way in the field. Life and work Sharples was educated at Dulwich College and Trinity College, Cambridge, from which he gained a first-class degree in 1970. He became a research fellow at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge in 1972, and from 1973 until his retirement he was at University College London. Awarded the Ph.D. degree in 1978 ("Studies in the ''De Fato'' of Alexander of Aphrodisias"), he was lecturer, then Reader (1990) and shortly after Professor of Classics (1994). He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verity Harte
Verity Harte is a British philosopher and George A. Saden Professor of Philosophy and Classics at Yale University. Books * '' Plato on Parts and Wholes: the Metaphysics of Structure'', Oxford: Clarendon 2002 * ''Aristotle and the Stoics Reading Plato'', co-edited by Harte, M.M. McCabe, R.W. Sharples, A. Sheppard, London: Institute of Classical Studies 2011 * '' Politeia in Greek and Roman Philosophy'', co-edited by Harte and Melissa Lane, Cambridge: CUP 2013 * '' Rereading Ancient Philosophy: Old Chestnuts and Sacred Cows'', co-edited by Harte and Raphael Woolf, Cambridge University Press 2018 References External linksProfileat Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ... * 1949 births Living people 21st-century British philosophers British philos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Academy
A national academy is an organizational body, usually operating with state financial support and approval, that co-ordinates scholarly research activities and standards for academic disciplines, and serves as a public policy advisors, research institutes, think tanks, and public administration consultants for governments or on issues of public importance, most frequently in the sciences but also in the humanities. Typically the country's learned societies in individual disciplines will liaise with or be coordinated by the national academy. National academies play an important organisational role in academic exchanges and collaborations between countries. The extent of official recognition of national academies varies between countries. In some cases they are explicitly or de facto an arm of government; in others, as in the United Kingdom, they are voluntary, non-profit bodies with which the government has agreed to negotiate, and which may receive government financial supp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fellow Of The British Academy
Fellowship of the British Academy (post-nominal letters FBA) is an award granted by the British Academy to leading academics for their distinction in the humanities and social sciences. The categories are: # Fellows – scholars resident in the United Kingdom # Corresponding Fellows – scholars resident overseas # Honorary Fellows – an Honorary title (academic), honorary academic title (whereby the post-nominal letters "Hon FBA" are used) # Deceased Fellows – Past Fellows of the British Academy The award of fellowship is based on published work and fellows may use the post-nominal letters ''FBA''. Examples of Fellows are Edward Rand; Mary Beard (classicist), Mary Beard; Roy Porter; Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford; Michael Lobban; M. R. James; Friedrich Hayek; John Maynard Keynes; Lionel Robbins; and Rowan Williams. See also * List of fellows of the British Academy References Fellows of learned societies of the United Kingdom, British Academy Fello ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
