Foot, Philippa Ruth, 1920-2010

By Rosalind Hursthouse

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14 Apr 2016

The women who brought philosophy into everyday life

At the University of Oxford in the 1940s, Iris Murdoch, Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot and Mary Midgley met and formed a quartet of female philosophers. Researchers Dr Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman explain the importance of their friendship and the impact of their ideas.

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