Ruth L. Saw

Ruth Lydia Saw
Born (1901-08-01)1 August 1901
Carshalton, Surrey
Died 23 March 1986(1986-03-23)
Carshalton, Surrey

Ruth Lydia Saw (1 August 1901 – 23 March 1986) was a British philosopher and aestheticist.[1]

Education and career

Ruth Saw attended the County School for Girls in Wallington, Surrey, followed in 1926 by Bedford College, University of London where she studied under Susan Stebbing.[2] She accepted a position as Lecturer in Philosophy at Smith College and remained there for several years. She then returned to England and was appointed to a Lecturership in Philosophy at Bedford College in 1939 and remained there for the rest of her career. She became Reader in Philosophy in 1946 and then Professor of Aesthetics from 1961–64. She was also Head of Department there from 1953 until her retirement in 1964.[3]

Saw's philosophical interests began with logic and philosophy of language, particularly on causal induction in Ockham's work.[4] This moved towards metaphysics, particularly Leibniz and Spinoza on whom she wrote full length works. By the 1950s her interests lay with aesthetics. She was appointed Professor of Aesthetics in the 1961 and published three articles on the subject in the early 1960s.

Saw was a founding member of the British Society of Aesthetics. In 1963 she became Vice-President of the Society, and in 1968, on the death of Sir Herbert, she became President.[5] She began to play an active role in the Aristotelian Society from the mid- 1930s eventually to become the fifth woman to be elected President of the Society.[6] in 1965.

Publications

Saw, Ruth L. (1941). William of Ockham on Terms, Propositions, Meaning. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 42:45 - 64.

Saw, Ruth L. (1951). The Vindication of Metaphysics. London: Macmillan.

Saw, Ruth L. (1952). Our knowledge of individuals. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 52:167-188.

Saw, Ruth L. (1954). Leibniz. London: Penguin Books.

Saw, Ruth L. (1954). Way to Wisdom: an Introduction to Philosophy. By Karl Jaspers. Translated by Ralph Manheim. (London: Gollancz. 1951. Pp. 208. Price 10s. 6d.). _Philosophy_ 29 (109):176-.

Saw, Ruth L. (1964). E. F. Carritt. British Journal of Aesthetics 4 (1):3-6.

Saw, Ruth L. (1969). Personal identity in Spinoza. Inquiry 12 (1-4):1 – 14.

Saw, Ruth L. (1973). Aesthetics: An Introduction. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 31 (4):543-544.

References

  1. ↑ Osborne, Harold (1986). "PROFESSOR RUTH L. SAW". British Journal of Aesthetics 26 (4): 307–308. doi:10.1093/bjaesthetics/26.4.307. Retrieved 19 February 2012.
  2. ↑ Brown, S (2005). Dictionary of Twentieth Century Philosophers. Thoemmes. p. 925. ISBN 184371096X.
  3. ↑ Waithe, Mary Ellen (1995). A History of Women Philosophers. Dordrecht: Kluwer. pp. 357–362. ISBN 0792328086.
  4. ↑ Saw, Ruth L. (1941). "William of Ockham on Terms, Propositions, Meaning". Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 42: 45–64. Retrieved 25 November 2015.
  5. ↑ Meager, R (1982). "Professor Ruth L. Saw". British Journal of Aesthetics 22 (2): 99–102. doi:10.1093/bjaesthetics/22.2.99.
  6. ↑ "SAW, Prof. Ruth Lydia". Who Was Who. A & C Black. December 2007. Retrieved 19 February 2012.
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