Foot, Philippa Ruth, 1920-2010

by Rosalind Hursthouse

Date
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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