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British philosopher
Dorothy Mary Emmet (; 29 September 1904,
Kensington , London – 20 September 2000,
Cambridge ) was a British
philosopher and head of
Manchester University 's philosophy department for over twenty years. With
Margaret Masterman and
Richard Braithwaite she was a founder member of the
Epiphany Philosophers . She was the doctoral advisor of
Alasdair MacIntyre and
Robert Austin Markus . Emmet was educated at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford, where she took first-class honours in 1927.
Positions held
Publications
Sources
Obituary: Dorothy Emmet
The Guardian , 27 September 2000
Dorothy Emmet
Times obituary, 8 October 2000 – archived by
Wayback Machine
James A. Bradley, André Cloots, Helmut Maaßen and
Michel Weber (eds.),
European Studies in Process Thought, Vol. I. In Memoriam Dorothy Emmet , Leuven, European Society for Process Thought, 2003 (
ISBN
3-8330-0512-2 ).
Leemon McHenry, "
Dorothy M. Emmet (1904–2000) ," in
Michel Weber and Will Desmond (eds.).
Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought (Frankfurt / Lancaster, Ontos Verlag, 2008, pp. 649 sq.). Cf. Ronny Desmet & Michel Weber (edited by),
Whitehead. The Algebra of Metaphysics. Applied Process Metaphysics Summer Institute Memorandum , Louvain-la-Neuve, Les Éditions Chromatika, 2010.
Leemon McHenry, "EMMET, Dorothy Mary (1904–2000)" Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Philosophers , edited by Stuart Brown, Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 2005, pp. 266–268.
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