Dorothy Emmet

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, 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 interdisciplinary conversation with a 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 (now Newcastle University) 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