M. M. McCabe

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M. M. McCabe
FBA
Born
Mary Margaret Ann McCabe

(1948-12-18) December 18, 1948 (age 75)
NationalityBritish
Spouse Martin Beddoe [1]
Academic background
Alma mater Newnham College, Cambridge
Thesis Plato's Theory of Punishment and Its Antecedents
Influences

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 written books on Plato and other ancient philosophers, including the pre-Socratics, Socrates and Aristotle. [2]

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Early life

McCabe was educated at Oxford High School for Girls, and then studied at Newnham College, University of Cambridge, taking her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1970 and her Doctor of Philosophy degree 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 to 2012, and president of the Mind Association in 2016–2017. [5]

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

Edited volumes

Articles and book chapters

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References

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  2. '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 Archived 11 October 2020 at the Wayback Machine
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  6. "Elections to the British Academy celebrate the diversity of UK research". British Academy. 2 July 2017. Archived from the original on 8 May 2020. Retrieved 29 July 2017.
  7. Gentzler, Jyl (1996). "Forms, Individuals, and Individuation: Mary Margaret McCabe's "Plato's Individuals"". Apeiron. 29 (2): 163–181. doi:10.1515/apeiron.1996.29.2.163. JSTOR   40913780. S2CID   170955522.
Professional and academic associations
Preceded byPresident of the British Philosophical Association
2009–2012
Succeeded by
Preceded by President of the Mind Association
2016–2017
Succeeded by