Catherine Rowett

Catherine Rowett
Nationality British
Academic background
Alma mater University of Cambridge
Doctoral advisor Christopher Stead
Academic work
Discipline Philosophy
Institutions University of East Anglia
Notable works

Rethinking Early Greek Philosophy: Hippolytus of Rome and the Presocratics

Knowledge and Truth in Plato: Stepping Past the Shadow of Socrates

Catherine Joanna Rowett (previously publishing as Catherine Osborne from 1979 to 2011) is Professor of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia. She is known in particular for her work on Greek Philosophy, especially the Pre-Socratic philosophers.[1]

Career

Rowett read Classics at the University of Cambridge, where she was also awarded her PhD with a dissertation on Hippolytus of Rome and Pre-Socratic philosophers. The dissertation was published as Rethinking Early Greek Philosophy: Hippolytus of Rome and the Presocratics by Cornell University Press in 1987.[2]

Rowett became a Junior Research Fellow of New Hall, Cambridge in 1984. In 1987, she took up a Senior Research Fellowship at St Anne's College, Oxford while also a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow. From 1990 Rowett was a lecturer in philosophy at Swansea University. On leaving Swansea in 2000, Rowett became Reader in Greek Culture at the University of Liverpool and then 2003 she moved to the University of East Anglia as a lecturer in philosophy. Rowett became Reader in 2006 and then Professor of Philosophy in 2008. She was the Head of the School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies from 2005 to 2008.[1]

Rowett was awarded a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship from 2007-9 for her work on knowledge and truth in Plato,[3] which formed the foundation of her work published as Knowledge and Truth in Plato: Stepping Past the Shadow of Socrates by Oxford University Press in 2018.[4]

Rowett stood as a Green Party candidate for the constituency of South Norfolk in the 2015 and 2017 elections.[5][6]

Selected publications

As Catherine Rowett

  • Knowledge and Truth in Plato: Stepping Past the Shadow of Socrates (Oxford University Press, 2018)

As Catherine Osborne

  • Philoponus: On Aristotle Physics 1.4-9 (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle, Duckworth, 2009)
  • Dumb beasts and Dead Philosophers: Humanity and the Humane in Ancient Philosophy and Literature (Oxford University Press, 2007)[7]
  • Philoponus Commentary on Aristotle's Physics book 1.1-3 (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle, Duckworth, 2006)
  • Presocratic Philosophy: a very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2004)
  • Eros Unveiled: Plato and the God of Love (Clarendon Press, 1994)[8]
  • Rethinking Early Greek Philosophy: Hippolytus of Rome and the Presocratics (Cornell University Press, 1987)[9]

References

  1. 1 2 "Catherine Rowett - Research Database, The University of East Anglia". people.uea.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-09-30.
  2. ↑ Furley, David (1991). "Review of Rethinking Early Greek Philosophy: Hippolytus of Rome and the Presocratics". The Philosophical Review. 100 (1): 157–160. doi:10.2307/2185530.
  3. ↑ "The Leverhulme Trust: Awards Made in 2007" (PDF). 2007. Retrieved 30 September 2018.
  4. ↑ Knowledge and Truth in Plato: Stepping Past the Shadow of Socrates. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. 2018-06-26. ISBN 9780199693658.
  5. ↑ "Parliamentary candidate 2017". South Norfolk Greens. 2015-03-25. Retrieved 2018-09-30.
  6. ↑ Grimmer, Dan. "WATCH: Who is standing in the General Election 2017 in South Norfolk and why do they think you should vote for them?". Diss Mercury. Retrieved 2018-09-30.
  7. ↑ Miles, Graeme (2007). "Review of: Dumb Beasts and Dead Philosophers. Humanity and the Humane in Ancient Philosophy and Literature". Bryn Mawr Classical Review. ISSN 1055-7660.
  8. ↑ Price, A. W. (1997). "Review of Eros Unveiled. Plato and the God of Love". International Journal of the Classical Tradition. 4 (1): 118–121.
  9. ↑ Schofield, Malcolm (1988). "Rethinking Early Greek Philosophy: Hippolytus of Rome and the Presocratics. Catherine Osborne". Isis. 79 (3): 537–538. doi:10.1086/354829. ISSN 0021-1753.
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