Mary Mothersill

Mary Mothersill (born Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 1923; died New York City 22 January 2008) was a Canadian philosopher.

Mary Mothersill gained a BA in English from the University of Toronto in 1944,[1] a Masters degree in philosophy from Radcliffe College in 1945,[2] and in 1954 a PhD from Harvard University, for a dissertation entitled Lewis and Stevenson: A Critical Comparison of Two Theories of Value.[3]

After teaching at Vassar College (1947–51), and at Columbia University, the University of Connecticut, the University of Michigan, the University of Chicago, and City College of New York,[4] she joined the faculty of Columbia University's women's undergraduate college, Barnard College, teaching there and in Columbia's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences from 1963 until her retirement in 1993.[5]

Mothersill, early in her career, published on metaethics, moral knowledge, the nature of art and criticism, death, feminism, pornography, and other topics.[6] Her Beauty Restored (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984) is widely regarded as a central text in the literature on aesthetics.[7]

In 2003 Mary Mothersill was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[8] In 1986 she was a Visiting Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford, and she was later Alfred North Whitehead lecturer at Harvard.[9]

References

  1. ↑ F. Neuhouser, "In Memoriam: Mary Mothersill," The Journal of Philosophy 105 (2008): 276
  2. ↑ F. Neuhouser, "In Memoriam: Mary Mothersill,", The Journal of Philosophy 105 (2008): 276
  3. ↑ http://www.humesociety.org/archive/inMemoriam.asp
  4. ↑ F. Neuhouser, "In Memoriam: Mary Mothersill,", The Journal of Philosophy 105 (2008): 276
  5. ↑ http://www.humesociety.org/archive/inMemoriam.asp
  6. ↑ F. Neuhouser, "In Memoriam: Mary Mothersill," The Journal of Philosophy 105 (2008): 276
  7. ↑ http://www.humesociety.org/archive/inMemoriam.asp; F. Neuhouser, "In Memoriam: Mary Mothersill," The Journal of Philosophy 105 (2008): 276
  8. ↑ http://www.humesociety.org/archive/inMemoriam.asp
  9. ↑ F. Neuhouser, "In Memoriam: Mary Mothersill," The Journal of Philosophy 105 (2008): 276

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