Pamela Huby

{{Short description|British philosopher (1922–2019)}}

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Pamela Margaret Huby (21 April 1922 - 18 February 2019) was a British philosopher and emeritus reader in philosophy at the University of Liverpool.{{cite web |last1=Weinberg |first1=Justin |title=Pamela Huby (1922-2019) |url=http://dailynous.com/2019/02/26/pamela-huby-1922-2019/ |website=Daily Nous |date=26 February 2019}}{{cite web |title=Pamela Huby |url=http://www.informationphilosopher.com/solutions/philosophers/huby/ |website=www.informationphilosopher.com}}

Born in Dulwich, she was educated at James Allen's Girls' School and then won a senior scholarship in Classics to Lady Margaret Hall Oxford University. She was then an assistant lecturer in Classics at Reading and after a year returned to Oxford to lecture at St Anne's College where she switched to the field of ancient Greek philosophy, moving to Liverpool two years later.

Books

  • Greek Ethics (1967)
  • Plato and Modern Morality (1972)
  • Theophrastus of Eresus (1999)

References