M. M. McCabe

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 authored a number of books on Plato and published work on other ancient philosophers, including the pre-Socratics, Socrates and Aristotle.[2]

M. M. McCabe

FBA
Born
Mary Margaret Ann McCabe

1948 (age 71–72)
NationalityBritish
Spouse(s)Martin Beddoe[1]
Academic background
Alma materNewnham College, Cambridge
ThesisPlato's Theory of Punishment and Its Antecedents
Influences
Academic work
DisciplinePhilosophy
Sub-discipline
Institutions
  • New Hall, Cambridge
  • King's College, London

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
  • Plato on Punishment (1981)
  • Plato's Individuals (1994)[7]
  • Plato and His Predecessors: The Dramatisation of Reason (2007)
  • Platonic Conversations (2015)

Edited volumes
  • Form and Argument in Late Plato (2000), co-edited with Christopher Gill.
  • Perspectives on Perception: A Collection of Essays, (2007) co-edited with Mark Textor.
  • Aristotle and the Stoics Reading Plato (2010), co-edited with Verity Harte, R. W. Sharples and Anne Sheppard

Articles and book chapters
  • 'Silencing the Sophists: The Drama of Plato's Euthydemus' (1998), Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy,Vol. 14, pp. 139-68.
  • 'Looking inside Charmides’ Cloak' (2007), in Maieusis, ed. Dominic Scott, Oxford University Press, pp. 1-19.
  • 'Escaping One's Own Notice Knowing: Meno's Paradox Again' (2009), in Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society. Vol. 109, 1, pp. 233-256.
  • 'The Stoic Sage in the Original Position' (2013), in Politeia in Greek and Roman Philosophy, ed. Verity Harte and Melissa Lane, pp. 251-274'
  • 'The Unity of Virtue: Plato's Models of Philosophy' (2016), Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 90 (1), pp. 1-25.
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References
  1. "Who's Who 2009: New Names" (PDF). 15 August 2017. Retrieved 15 August 2017.
  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
  3. "Honorary academic staff".
  4. "Mary Margaret McCabe".
  5. "Professor MM McCabe".
  6. "Elections to the British Academy celebrate the diversity of UK research". British Academy. 2 July 2017. 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.
Professional and academic associations
Preceded by
Brad Hooker		 President of the British Philosophical Association
2009–2012		 Succeeded by
Robert Stern
Preceded by
Catherine Wilson		 President of the Mind Association
2016–2017		 Succeeded by
Roger Crisp
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