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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.

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Dorothy Emmet

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Dorothy Mary Emmet (/ˈɛmɪt/; 29 September 1904, Kensington, London – 20 September 2000, Cambridge) was a British philosopher and head of Manchester University's...

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List of women philosophers

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Raya Dunayevskaya (1910–1987) Divya Dwivedi Dorothy Edgington (born 1941) Frances Egan (fl. 2014) Dorothy Emmet (1904–2000) Cécile Fabre (born 1971) Carla...

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Alasdair MacIntyre

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Sociological Theory and Philosophical Analysis (anthology co-edited with Dorothy Emmet). London and Basingstoke: Macmillan. 1971. Against the Self-Images of...

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Epistemological idealism

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Boltzmann: His Later Life and Philosophy, 1900-1906, Springer, 1995, p. 51. Dorothy Emmet, The Nature of Metaphysical Thinking, Springer, 2015, p. 73 n. 1. v...

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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calls up the memory of those ideas with which it is associated (See Dorothy Emmet, "Coleridge and Philosophy"). Coleridge was critical of the literary...

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Outline of metaphysics

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1976) – Rudolf Carnap (1891 – 1970) – Gilbert Ryle (1900 – 1976) – Dorothy Emmet (1904 – 2000) – Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 – 1980) – Donald Davidson (1917...

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Index of metaphysics articles

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Doctrine of internal relations -- Donald Davidson (philosopher) -- Dorothy Emmet -- Downward causation -- Dualistic cosmology -- Duns Scotus -- Duration...

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Women in philosophy

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taught philosophy at the University of Manitoba from 1969 to 1984. Dorothy Emmet (1904–2000) was a Commonwealth Fellowship at Radcliffe College, where...

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Robert Austin Markus

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professor Dorothy Emmet, who had a major influence on him. His 1948 MA on Samuel Alexander, and his 1950 PhD on Cartesianism, were both supervised by Emmet. At...

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Epiphany Philosophers

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founders of the group included Margaret Masterman, Richard Braithwaite, Dorothy Emmet, Robert H. Thouless, Michael Argyle and Ted Bastin. Later members included...

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Herbert McCabe

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Yorkshire. He studied chemistry at Manchester University, but influenced by Dorothy Emmet switched to philosophy. He contributed a number of pieces to Humanitas...

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List of philosophers born in the 20th century

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Elshtain (1941–2013) Jon Elster (born 1940)[b][c] Charles R. Embry Dorothy Emmet (1904–2000) Pascal Engel (born 1954) David Enoch Erik Erikson (1902–1994)...

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Romantic epistemology

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external objects was love, a deep desire to know other than ourselves. As Dorothy Emmet (1952) noted, the entire basis of Coleridge's new approach to knowing...

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Brand Blanshard

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ISBN 0-8195-5100-7. American philosophy List of American philosophers Dorothy Emmet, The Nature of Metaphysical Thinking, Springer, 2015, p. 73 n. 1. Coherentist...

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Aristotelian Society

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John Wisdom (1950–1951) A. J. Ayer (1951–1952) H. B. Acton (1952–1953) Dorothy Emmet (1953–1954) C. D. Broad (1954–1955) J. N. Findlay (1955–1956) J. L....

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Dan Emmett

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his life was produced in 1943, titled Dixie. Starring Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour, it is a musical directed by A. Edward Sutherland.[citation needed]...

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Leemon McHenry

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Whitehead and F.H. Bradley, in `1984 by external examiner, Professor Dorothy Emmet, Cambridge University. Much of McHenry's philosophical work focuses...

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Wyatt Emory Cooper

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of Quitman, Mississippi, the son of Rixie Jane Annie (née Anderson) and Emmet Debro Cooper.[citation needed] Cooper was from a poor family with deep Southern...

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Ted Bastin

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psychic surgeon Zé Arigó. Bastin was also, with Margaret Masterman, Dorothy Emmet and R. B. Braithwaite a founding member of the Epiphany Philosophers...

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Thomas Henry Croxall

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Geismar, Augsburg Publishing House; Philosophy, July 1941, by Professor Dorothy Emmet; Existentialism: Disintegration of Man's Soul, Guido De Ruggiero, 1948...

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Index of contemporary philosophy articles

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Dominant ideology Dominik Gross Donald Burt Donald Davidson (philosopher) Dorothy Emmet Doxastic logic Dual power Dudley Knowles Eckart Schütrumpf Edith Wyschogrod...

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Deaths in September 2000

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botanist, cancer. Gloria Talbott, 69, American actress, kidney failure. Dorothy Emmet, 95, British philosopher and academic. Mona Moore, 83, British painter...

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1971 in philosophy

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Doubleday R. G. Collingwood, Ruskin's Philosophy, Chicester: Quentin Nelson Dorothy Emmet and Alasdair MacIntyre (ed.) Sociological Theory and Philosophical Analysis...

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Keeping Up Appearances

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Liz's brother Emmet (David Griffin) moves in with her at the beginning of series two, after a messy divorce. Hyacinth, upon learning that Emmet is a musician...

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Bright Road

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by Gerald Mayer and featuring a nearly all-black cast, the film stars Dorothy Dandridge as an idealistic first-year elementary school teacher trying...

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