Dorothy Emmet

Positions held

• Commonwealth Fellowship at Radcliffe College
• Tutor at Somerville College, Oxford
• Lecturer in philosophy at Armstrong College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1932
• 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 Aristotelian Society in 1953–54.

  Publications

• Whitehead's Philosophy of Organism
• The Nature of Metaphysical Thinking
• Annual philosophical lecture to the British Academy
• The Stanton lectures in Cambridge
• Function, Purpose and Powers
• Rules, Roles and Relations
• Sociological Theory and Philosophical Analysis.
• In The Moral Prism
• The Effectiveness of Causes
• The Passage of Nature
• The Role of the Unrealisable
• Philosophers and Friends: Reminiscences of 70 Years in Philosophy