What is rude?
Thomas Nagel: Midgley, Murdoch, Anscombe, Foot, 10 February 2022
The Women Are up to Something: How Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley and Iris Murdoch Revolutionised Ethics
by Benjamin J.B. Lipscomb.
Oxford, 326 pp., £20, November 2021,978 0 19 754107 4 Show More
by Benjamin J.B. Lipscomb.
Oxford, 326 pp., £20, November 2021,
Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life
by Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman.
Chatto, 398 pp., £25, February,978 1 78474 328 4 Show More
by Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman.
Chatto, 398 pp., £25, February,
“... of their time. But they differ in scope and emphasis, so it is well worthwhile to read them both. Benjamin Lipscomb is American; Clare Mac Cumhaill is Irish and Rachael Wiseman is British. His book covers a longer time span, and goes more deeply into the philosophical controversies in which the four were engaged, particularly the transformation in moral ... ”
