Dorothy Emmet

Dorothy Mary Emmet was a British philosopher and head of Manchester University's philosophy department for over twenty years. With Margaret Masterman and Richard Braithwaite she was a founder member of the Epiphany Philosophers. Her graduate students at Manchester included Alasdair MacIntyre and Robert Austin Markus. Emmet was educated at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford, where she took first-class honours in 1927. She was elected to the membership of Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society in 1945 while living in Northenden, Manchester.
Throughout her twenty-year tenure of the Sir Samuel Hall chair of philosophy at Manchester she was the University's sole woman professor. In her time there she was at the heart of a remarkably fruitful interdisciplinary conversation with a distinguished set of social scientists and philosophers, who included Michael Polanyi, Max Gluckman, W.J.M. Mackenzie and Ely Devons.

Positions held

Commonwealth Fellowship at Radcliffe College
Tutor at Somerville College, Oxford
Lecturer in philosophy at Armstrong College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1932
She joined Manchester University as a lecturer in the philosophy of religion in 1938. She was named reader in philosophy in 1945 and was appointed Sir Samuel Hall professor of philosophy in 1946.
President of the Aristotelian Society in 1953–54.
Fellow, Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge in 1966