The Lady Warnock, DBE

The Lady Warnock, DBE's Biography

Forename(s)
(Helen) Mary Warnock
Sex
Female
Decorations
DBE (1984)
Date of Birth
14/4/1924
Foretitle(s)
Baroness (Life Peer UK 1985), of Weeke in the City of Winchester; Dame
Surname
WARNOCK
Style
The Lady Warnock, DBE
Recreations
gardening, music

The Lady Warnock, DBE's Professional Career

Career
fell and tutor in philosophy St Hugh's Coll Oxford 1949-66, headmistress Oxford HS 1966-72; former memb SSRC, chm Ctee of Enquiry into Human Fertilisation, former memb IBA; chm: Advsy Ctee on Animal Experiments, Ctee of Enquiry into Education of Handicapped; chair Planning Aid Tst; memb Royal Cmmn on Environmental Pollution 1979-85; Albert Medallist RSA; Talbot Res fell LMH until 1976, FCP; mistress Girton Coll Cambridge 1985-91 (life fell); hon degrees: Open Univ, Essex, Melbourne, Bath, Exeter, Manchester, Glasgow, York, Warwick, Liverpool, London, St Andrews, Ulster; hon fell: St Hugh's Coll Oxford, Lady Margaret Hall Oxford, Hertford Coll Oxford; Hon FBA, Hon FRCP, hon fell Acad of Medical Sciences

The Lady Warnock, DBE's Publications

Books and Publications
Ethics Since 1900, Existentialism, Imagination, Schools of Thought, What Must We Teach? (with T Devlin), Education: A Way Forward, Memory, A Common Policy for Education, The Uses of Philosophy, Imagination and Time, Women Philosophers, An Intelligent Person's Guide to Ethics, A Memoir: People and Places, Making Babies, Nature and Mortality: A Philosopher in Public Life, Easeful Death (with Elizabeth Macdonald), Dishonest to God: How to Keep Religion out of Politics

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