Biography:M. M. McCabe
Mary Margaret Ann McCabe | |
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| Born | 1948 |
| Spouse(s) | Martin Beddoe[1] |
| Era | Ancient philosophy |
| Region | Western Philosophy |
Main interests | philosophical logic, moral philosophy |
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Mary Margaret Anne McCabe, FBA (born 18 December 1948), known as M. M. McCabe, is emerita professor of ancient philosophy at King's College London. She has authored a number of books on Plato and published work on other ancient philosophers, including the pre-Socratics, Socrates and Aristotle.[2]
Early life
McCabe was educated at Oxford High School for Girls, and then studied at Newnham College, University of Cambridge, taking her BA In 1970 and PhD in 1977 in Classics. Her doctoral thesis, 'Plato's theory of punishment and its antecedents', formed the basis of her first book, Plato on Punishment, published in 1981.
Academic career
From 1981 to 1990 McCabe was Fellow in Classics at New Hall, University of Cambridge. She joined King's College London in 1990 and retired from her chair in Ancient Philosophy in 2014. She is now Keeling Scholar and Honorary Professor in Philosophy at University College London, and a Bye-Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge.[3]
In 2017 McCabe gave the Sather Lectures at the University of California, Berkeley, on the subject of 'Seeing and Saying: Plato on Virtue and Knowledge'.[4]
McCabe was president of the British Philosophical Association from 2009-12, and president of the Mind Association in 2016-7.[5]
Honours
In July 2017, McCabe was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.[6]
Selected works
Books
- Plato on Punishment (1981)
- Plato's Individuals (1994)[7]
- Plato and his Predecessors: The Dramatisation of Reason (2007)
- Platonic Conversations (2015)
Edited volumes
- Form and Argument in late Plato (2000), co-edited with Christopher Gill.
- Perspectives on Perception: a collection of essays, (2007) co-edited with Mark Textor.
- Aristotle and the Stoics Reading Plato (2010), co-edited with Verity Harte, R. W. Sharples and Anne Sheppard
Articles and book chapters
- 'Silencing the Sophists: The Drama of Plato's Euthydemus' (1998), Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy,Vol. 14, pp. 139-68.
- 'Looking inside Charmides’ Cloak' (2007), in Maieusis, ed. Dominic Scott, Oxford University Press, pp. 1-19.
- 'Escaping One's Own Notice Knowing: Meno's Paradox Again' (2009), in Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society. Vol. 109, 1, pp. 233-256.
- 'The Stoic Sage in the Original Position' (2013), in Politeia in Greek and Roman Philosophy, ed. Verity Harte and Melissa Lane, pp. 251-274'
- 'The Unity of Virtue: Plato's Models of Philosophy' (2016), Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 90 (1), pp. 1-25.
References
- ↑ "Who’s Who 2009: New Names". 15 August 2017. http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01123/Who_s_Who_new_name_1123303a.pdf. Retrieved 15 August 2017.
- ↑ 'McCABE, Prof. Mary Margaret Anne', Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016; online edn, Nov 2016 accessed 29 July 2017
- ↑ "Honorary academic staff". http://www.ucl.ac.uk/philosophy/people/honorary-academic-staff.
- ↑ "Mary Margaret McCabe". http://www.classics.berkeley.edu/people/sather/m-m-mccabe.
- ↑ "Professor MM McCabe". https://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/directory/professor-mm-mccabe-1.
- ↑ "Elections to the British Academy celebrate the diversity of UK research". 2 July 2017. http://www.britac.ac.uk/news/elections-british-academy-celebrate-diversity-uk-research. Retrieved 29 July 2017.
- ↑ Gentzler, Jyl (1996). "Forms, Individuals, and Individuation: Mary Margaret McCabe's "Plato's Individuals"". Apeiron 29 (2): 163–181. doi:10.2307/40913780.
External links
- Staff profile at King's College London
- M.M. McCabe on the Paradox of Inquiry, an interview with Philosophy Bites
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