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Dorothy Mary Emmet (September 29, 1904 – September 20, 2000) was a British philosopher and head of Manchester University's philosophy department for over twenty years.

Positions held

• president of the Aristotelian Society in 1953-54.
• In 1938, she was appointed lecturer in the philosophy of religion at Manchester, becoming reader in philosophy in 1945 and the Sir Samuel Hall professor of philosophy in 1946.
• appointed lecturer in philosophy at Armstrong College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne (now Newcastle University) in 1932
• temporary teaching post at Somerville College, Oxford
• Commonwealth Fellowship at Radcliffe College

Publications

• Whitehead's Philosophy of Organism (1932)
• The Nature of Metaphysical Thinking (1945)
• Annual philosophical lecture to the British Academy (1949)
• The Stanton lectures in Cambridge (1950-53)
• Function, Purpose and Powers (1958)
• Rules, Roles and Relations (1966)
• In The Moral Prism (1979)
• The Effectiveness of Causes (1986)
• The Passage of Nature (1992)
• The Role of the Unrealisable (1994)
• Philosophers and Friends: Reminiscences of 70 Years in Philosophy (1996)

References