Dorothy Emmet
Dorothy Mary Emmet (/ˈɛmɪt/; 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.
Commonwealth Fellowship at
Radcliffe College
Tutor at
Somerville College, Oxford
She joined Manchester University as a lecturer in the philosophy of religion in 1938. She was named reader in philosophy in 1945 and was appointed Sir Samuel Hall professor of philosophy in 1946.
President of the in 1953–54.
Aristotelian Society
Fellow, Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge in 1966
(1932)
Whitehead's Philosophy of Organism
(1945)
The Nature of Metaphysical Thinking
Annual philosophical lecture to the (1949)
British Academy
The in Cambridge (1950–53)
Stanton lectures
Function, Purpose and Powers (1958)
(1966)
Rules, Roles and Relations
(1979)
The Moral Prism
(1986)
The Effectiveness of Causes
The Passage of Nature (1992)
The Role of the Unrealisable (1994)
Philosophers and Friends: Reminiscences of 70 Years in Philosophy (1996)
James A. Bradley, André Cloots, Helmut Maaßen and (eds.), European Studies in Process Thought, Vol. I. In Memoriam Dorothy Emmet, Leuven, European Society for Process Thought, 2003 (ISBN 3-8330-0512-2).
Michel Weber
Leemon McHenry, "," 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.
Dorothy M. Emmet (1904–2000)
Leemon McHenry, "EMMET, Dorothy Mary (1904–2000)" Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Philosophers, edited by Stuart Brown, Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 2005, pp. 266–268.