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Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life
Manage episode 333707931 series 2753984
In this week's episode of the Mile End Institute Podcast, our Deputy Director, Dr Karl Pike, talks to Dr Rachael Wiseman (Liverpool) and Dr Clare Mac Cumhaill (Durham) about their new book, Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life.
A Radio 4 Book of the Week and one of The Guardian's 50 Hottest Summer Reads, Metaphysical Animals explores how Oxford became a 'crucible of a new kind of ethical thinking' and charts the work, life and loves of four of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, Elizabeth Anscombe, Iris Murdoch, Philippa Foot and Mary Midgley.
68 episoder
Manage episode 333707931 series 2753984
In this week's episode of the Mile End Institute Podcast, our Deputy Director, Dr Karl Pike, talks to Dr Rachael Wiseman (Liverpool) and Dr Clare Mac Cumhaill (Durham) about their new book, Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life.
A Radio 4 Book of the Week and one of The Guardian's 50 Hottest Summer Reads, Metaphysical Animals explores how Oxford became a 'crucible of a new kind of ethical thinking' and charts the work, life and loves of four of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, Elizabeth Anscombe, Iris Murdoch, Philippa Foot and Mary Midgley.
68 episoder
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