Elizabeth Flower

**Elizabeth Farquhar Flower**
Elizabeth Farquhar Flower
Education	University of Pennsylvania (Ph.D.)
Era	21st century Philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Analytic
Institutions	University of Pennsylvania
Doctoral students	Vincent Luizzi
Main interests	moral philosophy, philosophy of law

Elizabeth Farquhar Flower (1914–1995) was an American philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. She co-authored (with Murray G. Murphey) a standard textbook on the history of philosophy, History of Philosophy in America.[1]

Biography

Flower was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey in 1914. At twenty-one she graduated from Wilson College with a degree in chemistry. Initially interested in medicine, she changed the focus of her studies and in 1939 received a PhD in philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania. Two years before graduating, she was appointed an assistant instructor, and eight years after graduating, she was appointed Assistant Professor of Philosophy. She received tenure in 1956, and became a full professor in 1974. She taught many students, the most prominent of whom was Martin Luther King Jr. Many of her articles were published in scientific journals, and in 1977, she published her most popular work History of Philosophy in America, and in 1994, Critique of Applied Ethics: Reflections and Recommendations.[1] She also sporadically taught at Columbia (Barnard), Hamilton College, and foreign schools in Peru, Colombia, Chile and Argentina.[2] Professor Flower taught undergraduate ethics for many years at the University of Pennsylvania, and had a personal and long lasting effect on her students, who affectionately knew her as Betty Flower. She emphasized the impact of Scottish realism on the development of philosophy in America.[3]

gollark: A replacement bee would be assigned after a few failed pings.

gollark: I don't know what they'd alert nearby people *of*.

gollark: For sending reports and such they'd just use their radios.

gollark: An alert for whom?

gollark: I see.

References

Saxon, Wolfgang (1995-06-29). "Elizabeth Flower, 80, Philosopher at Penn And Author of Text". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-11-19.
"Guide, Elizabeth F. Flower Papers (UPT 50 F644), University Archives, University of Pennsylvania". www.archives.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2017-11-19.
Quandt, Jean B. (1979-06-01). "A History of Philosophy in America. By Elizabeth Flower and Murray G. Murphey. (New York: Capricorn, 1977. Vol. I: xx + 435 pp. Notes and indexes. Vol. II: 510 pp.)". Journal of American History. 66 (1): 101–102. doi:10.2307/1894677. ISSN 0021-8723. JSTOR 1894677.

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[NY-1] Saxon, Wolfgang (1995-06-29). "Elizabeth Flower, 80, Philosopher at Penn And Author of Text". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-11-19.

[2] "Guide, Elizabeth F. Flower Papers (UPT 50 F644), University Archives, University of Pennsylvania". www.archives.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2017-11-19.

[3] Quandt, Jean B. (1979-06-01). "A History of Philosophy in America. By Elizabeth Flower and Murray G. Murphey. (New York: Capricorn, 1977. Vol. I: xx + 435 pp. Notes and indexes. Vol. II: 510 pp.)". Journal of American History. 66 (1): 101–102. doi:10.2307/1894677. ISSN 0021-8723. JSTOR 1894677.