Notes on Mary Midgley: Style and Substance, Ian Ground (10/11/18)
At the Midgley Archive Launch we heard a series of wonderful talks from distinguished guests....
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At the Midgley Archive Launch we heard a series of wonderful talks from distinguished guests....
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We’re excited to be part of the Royal Institute of Philosophy Centenary Celebration of the...
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We’ve done our best to make sure this lifeline is accurate and complete. Please let us know if you spot any errors or omissions. Jean Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) 1919 (15 July) Born in Phibsborough, Ireland, to...
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by Rachael Wiseman | Dec 7, 2018 | Writing, Library, News
At the Midgley Archive Launch we heard a series of wonderful talks from distinguished guests....
by Rachael Wiseman | Nov 23, 2018 | Writing, Writings, News
At the Midgley Archive Launch we heard a series of wonderful short talks from distinguished...
by Rachael Wiseman | Oct 15, 2018 | Talks & Writings, Talks, Library, Audio, News
We’re excited to be part of the Royal Institute of Philosophy Centenary Celebration of the...
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by Rachael Wiseman | Jun 19, 2017 | Writing, Library
Midgley wrote this essay in the mid-1950s for BBC radio. In her memoir The Owl of Minerva, she recalls:
“I wrote it because I had suddenly been struck by the fact that nearly all the famous philosophers whose lives we know about were lifelong bachelors…
by Rachael Wiseman | Jun 19, 2017 | Writing, Library
Photo of Certificate, Photo of letter, Guidance Qs (t. b. w) In May 1983, Philippa Foot was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was sent a rather grand certificate (click to enlarge) informing...
by Rachael Wiseman | Jun 19, 2017 | Writing, Library
by Mary Midgley Mary Midgley Considers How What Is Called Philosophy Has Changed Since She And Her Friends First Plunged Into It Changes In World-Pictures. When we four people started studying Philosophy at Oxford in the early...
by Rachael Wiseman | Jun 3, 2017 | Library, Lifelines
We’ve done our best to make sure this lifeline is accurate and complete. Please let us know if you spot any errors or omissions. Jean Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) 1919 (15 July) Born in Phibsborough, Ireland, to...
by Rachael Wiseman | Jun 3, 2017 | Library, Lifelines
We’ve done our best to make sure this lifeline is accurate and complete. Please let us know if you spot any errors or omissions. Philippa Ruth Foot (1920-2010) 1920 (3 October) Born to Esther Cleveland and...
by Rachael Wiseman | Jun 3, 2017 | Library, Lifelines
We’ve done our best to make sure this lifeline is accurate and complete. Please let us know if you spot any errors or omissions. Mary Beatrice Midgley (1919-2018) 1919 (13 September) Born in London to Lesley and Tom...
by Rachael Wiseman | Jun 3, 2017 | Library, Lifelines
We’ve done our best to make sure this lifeline is accurate and complete. Please let us know if you spot any errors or omissions. Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe (1919-2001) 1919 (18 March) Born to Gertrude...
by Rachael Wiseman | Aug 17, 2016 | Writing, Library
In May 1983, Philippa Foot was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was sent a rather grand certificate (click to enlarge) informing her of the honor: As you may notice, the certificate is...
by Rachael Wiseman | Jan 20, 2016 | Library, Video
Last week Liza, Clare and I went along with Lindsay (our film-crew!), to interview Mary Warnock at her London home. We’ll be posting some sound-extracts from the interview here in the coming weeks (along with some from our...
by Rachael Wiseman | Dec 7, 2015 | Library, Video
Clare, Luna, and I went along to interview Mary Midgley today at her home in Newcastle. We spent an incredible 90 minutes learning about life in Oxford during the 1930s and 40s, and hearing her thoughts on the contemporary lot...
by Rachael Wiseman | Dec 3, 2015 | Library, Video, News
Mary Midgley has generously offered us her time on Monday, so we’re off to interview her about the Golden Age of female philosophy! We’ve got our own list of questions, but if there’s anything you think we...
by Rachael Wiseman | Nov 17, 2015 | Talks & Writings, Writing, Talks, Library, Audio, Writings, News
Liza and I were down in London on Thursday to meet with Mary Warnock. Baroness Warnock has recently retired from the House of Lords, but we met her there to talk about In Parenthesis and to find out what she could remember about...