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'''Catherine Joanna Rowett''' [[Member of the European Parliament|MEP]] (previously publishing as '''Catherine Osborne''' from 1979 to 2011) is a British politician and academic. She is Professor of Philosophy at the [[University of East Anglia]]. She is known in particular for her work on [[Ancient Greek philosophy|Greek Philosophy]], especially the [[Pre-Socratic philosophy|Pre-Socratic philosophers]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://people.uea.ac.uk/en/persons/c-rowett|title=Catherine Rowett - Research Database, The University of East Anglia|website=people.uea.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=2018-09-30}}</ref> She has been the [[Green Party of England and Wales|Green Party]] [[Member of the European Parliament]] (MEP) for the [[East of England (European Parliament constituency)|East of England]] since 2019.<ref name=elect/>

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'''Catherine Joanna Rowett''' [[Member of the European Parliament|MEP]] (previously publishing as '''Catherine Osborne''' from 1979 to 2011) is a British politician and academic. She is Professor of Philosophy at the [[University of East Anglia]]. She is known in particular for her work on [[Ancient Greek philosophy|Greek Philosophy]], especially the [[Pre-Socratic philosophy|Pre-Socratic philosophers]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://people.uea.ac.uk/en/persons/c-rowett|title=Catherine Rowett - Research Database, The University of East Anglia|website=people.uea.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=2018-09-30}}</ref> She has been the [[Green Party of England and Wales|Green Party]] [[Member of the European Parliament]] (MEP) for the [[East of England (European Parliament constituency)|East of England]] since 2019.<ref name=elect/>

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==Academic 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 philosophy|Pre-Socratic philosophers]]. The dissertation was published as ''Rethinking Early Greek Philosophy: Hippolytus of Rome and the Presocratics'' by [[Cornell University Press]] in 1987.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Furley|first=David|date=1991|title=Review of Rethinking Early Greek Philosophy: Hippolytus of Rome and the Presocratics|journal=The Philosophical Review|volume=100|issue=1|pages=157–160|doi=10.2307/2185530|jstor=2185530}}</ref>
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 philosophy|Pre-Socratic philosophers]]. The dissertation was published as ''Rethinking Early Greek Philosophy: Hippolytus of Rome and the Presocratics'' by [[Cornell University Press]] in 1987.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Furley|first=David|date=1991|title=Review of Rethinking Early Greek Philosophy: Hippolytus of Rome and the Presocratics|journal=The Philosophical Review|volume=100|issue=1|pages=157–160|doi=10.2307/2185530|jstor=2185530}}</ref>


Revision as of 00:29, 28 May 2019

Catherine Rowett
MEP
Member of the European Parliament
for East of England
Incumbent
Assumed office
26 May 2019
Personal details
NationalityBritish
Political partyGreen Party of England and Wales
Alma materKing's College Cambridge, University of Cambridge
Websitepeople.uea.ac.uk/c_rowett
Academic background
Doctoral advisorChristopher Stead
Academic work
DisciplinePhilosophy
Institutions
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 MEP (previously publishing as Catherine Osborne from 1979 to 2011) is a British politician and academic. She 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] She has been the Green Party Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the East of England since 2019.[2]

Academic 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.[3]

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 Philosophy (later incorporated into the current 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,[4] 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.[5]

Political career

Rowett stood as a Green Party candidate for the constituency of South Norfolk in the 2015 and 2017 general elections.[6][7]

She was selected as the lead Green Party candidate for the East of England in the 2019 European Parliament election[8] and she was elected.[2]

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)[9]
  • 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)[10]
  • Rethinking Early Greek Philosophy: Hippolytus of Rome and the Presocratics (Cornell University Press, 1987)[11]

References

  1. ^ a b "Catherine Rowett - Research Database, The University of East Anglia". people.uea.ac.uk. Retrieved 30 September 2018.
  2. ^ a b "The UK's European elections 2019". BBC News. Retrieved 26 May 2019.
  3. ^ 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. JSTOR 2185530.
  4. ^ "The Leverhulme Trust: Awards Made in 2007" (PDF). 2007. Retrieved 30 September 2018. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  5. ^ Knowledge and Truth in Plato: Stepping Past the Shadow of Socrates. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. 26 June 2018. ISBN 9780199693658.
  6. ^ "Parliamentary candidate 2017". South Norfolk Greens. 25 March 2015. Retrieved 30 September 2018.
  7. ^ 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 30 September 2018.
  8. ^ "Catherine Rowett heads Green Party's push to elect an MEP in May". Eastern Green Party. 18 April 2019. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ Price, A. W. (1997). "Review of Eros Unveiled. Plato and the God of Love". International Journal of the Classical Tradition. 4 (1): 118–121. JSTOR 30222329.
  11. ^ 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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