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Clare Mac Cumhaill

Clare Mac Cumhaill is an Irish philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at Durham University, where she works on the philosophy of perception and aesthetics. With Rachael Wiseman she co-directs In Parenthesis, a project recovering the work of the wartime Oxford women philosophers, and co-wrote Metaphysical Animals, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in biography.

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1 book
Cover of Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life

Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life

2022

Mac Cumhaill and Wiseman follow four friends — Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch — through wartime Oxford, where, with the men away, they forged careers and a philosophy that restored metaphysics and moral life to the discipline's center.

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