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Mary Brenda Hesse FBA (15 October 1924 – 2 October 2016) was an English philosopher of science, latterly a professor in the subject at the University of Cambridge.[1]

Biography

Mary Hesse was born in Reigate, Surrey, to Ethelbert (Bertie) Thomas Hesse and Brenda Hesse (née Pelling).[2]

From 1949, she studied at Imperial College London, where she received a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1945, followed by a PhD in electron microscopy in 1948.[2] She earned a master's degree in 1949 from University College London.[2] Hesse lectured on mathematics at Royal Holloway College from 1947 to 1951, and at the University of Leeds from 1951 to 1955.[3] From 1955 to 1959 she taught philosophy and history of science at the University of London (the subject of her 1949 UCL master's degree).[2][3] In 1960 she was appointed to a lectureship in the same subject at the University of Cambridge, and in 1968 to a readership.[3] Hesse was a Fellow of Wolfson College from its beginning in 1965, and served as its vice-president from 1976 to 1980.[4] From 1975 until her early retirement in 1985, she remained at Cambridge as Professor of Philosophy of Science.[3][2] Hesse was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1971, as president of the Philosophy of Science Association in 1979, and awarded a Cambridge honorary ScD in 2002.[3][5] Retiring in 1985, she remained living in Cambridge until her death on 2 October 2016.

Publications

Monographs

Essay collections

Academic papers/book chapters, a selection

*For a complete list of publications see the online annotated and chronological bibliographies at Matteo Collodel's website in her honour.

References

  1. ^ Hallberg, Margareta (1 June 2017). "Revolutions and Reconstructions in the Philosophy of Science: Mary Hesse (1924–2016)". Journal for General Philosophy of Science. 48 (2): 161–171. doi:10.1007/s10838-017-9364-1. ISSN 1572-8587.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Mary Hesse". The Times. 31 December 2016. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 19 March 2019.
  3. ^ a b c d e "Professor Mary Hesse (1924–2016) | HPS". www.hps.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 19 March 2019.
  4. ^ "Professor Mary Hesse | Wolfson College Cambridge". 6 March 2016. Archived from the original on 6 March 2016. Retrieved 19 March 2019.
  5. ^ "Mary Brenda Hesse". The Gifford Lectures. 18 August 2014. Retrieved 19 March 2019.
  6. ^ "The Construction of Reality". The Gifford Lectures. 18 August 2014. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
  7. ^ Paper delivered as Hesse's contribution to the symposium "Unfamiliar Noises" at the 1987 Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and Mind Association. Co-symposiast Richard Rorty's paper "Hesse and Davidson on Metaphor" is also available (with registration at Internet Archive) in the same volume. (Susan Haack's address as chairman "Surprising Noises: Rorty and Hesse on Metaphor" being similarly available in Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 88, Issue 1 (1988).

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