Dr RACHAEL WISEMAN and Dr CLARE MAC CUMHAILL are philosophy lecturers and friends. Wiseman lectures at Liverpool University and is a recognised authority on the work of Elizabeth Anscombe; Mac Cumhaill is an expert in the philosophy of perception and aesthetics at Durham University, home of the Mary Midgley Papers. They are the co-directors of www.womeninparenthesis.co.uk, a scholarly project that makes the case for analytic philosophy’s first all-female philosophical school.
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A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A vibrant portrait of four college friends—Iris Murdoch, Philippa Foot, Elizabeth Anscombe, and Mary Midgley—who formed a new philosophical tradition while Oxford's men were away fighti... SEE MORE