Catherine Rowett

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Catherine Joanna Rowett , also known by her author's name Catherine Osborne (born December 29, 1956 in Yeovil ) from 1979 to 2011 , is a British philosopher and politician ( Green Party of England and Wales ). Rowett specialized in Greek, especially pre-Socratic philosophy and lectured at several British universities. From the 2019 European elections until January 31, 2020, she was a member of the European Parliament as part of the Greens / EFA group .

Life

Rowett studied at the University of Cambridge , where she also received her PhD with a dissertation on Hippolytus of Rome and pre-Socratic philosophers . The dissertation was published in 1987 under the title "Rethinking Early Greek Philosophy: Hippolytus of Rome and the Presocratics" by Cornell University Press .

Rowett was 1984 Junior Research Fellow at New Hall College of the University of Cambridge . In 1987 she began a Senior Research Fellowship at St Anne's College , Oxford, while also working as a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow . From 1990 Rowett was a lecturer in philosophy at Swansea University . When she left Swansea in 2000, Rowett became a reader in Greek culture at the University of Liverpool and then moved to the University of East Anglia as a lecturer in philosophy in 2003 . Rowett became a reader in 2006 and a professor of philosophy in 2008. From 2005 to 2008 she was director of the School of Philosophy (later integrated into today's School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies).

Rowett received a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship from 2007 to 2009 for her work on Knowledge and Truth in Plato, which formed the basis of her work, published in 2018 as Knowledge and Truth in Plato: Stepping Past the Shadow of Socrates by Oxford University Press appeared.

politics

Catherine Rowett has been involved in the Green Party of England and Wales for many years . Rowett ran unsuccessfully in the South Norfolk constituency for a seat in the UK House of Commons in the 2015 and 2017 elections .

In 2019, her party nominated her for the 2019 European elections to the party's first place on the list in the British European constituency East of England. Your party won a mandate for the first time in the constituency that Rowett accepted with 12.67 percent of the vote. She joined the Greens / EFA group , for which she was a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs . She was also a deputy member of the Transport and Tourism Committee and the Human Rights Subcommittee .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Catherine Rowett - Research Database, The University of East Anglia. Retrieved July 12, 2019 .
  2. ^ David Furley, Catherine Osborne: Rethinking Early Greek Philosophy: Hippolytus of Rome and the Presocratics. In: The Philosophical Review . tape 100 , no. 1 , 1991, p. 157 , doi : 10.2307 / 2185530 .
  3. ^ Catherine Rowett: Knowledge and truth in Plato: stepping past the shadow of Socrates . First ed. Oxford, ISBN 978-0-19-254092-8 .
  4. ↑ Eastern Region Green Party | Catherine Rowett heads Green Party's push to elect to MEP in May. Retrieved July 12, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Parliamentary candidate 2017. In: South Norfolk Greens. March 25, 2015. Retrieved July 12, 2019 (UK English).
  6. ↑ Dan Grimmer: WATCH: Who is standing in the General Election 2017 in South Norfolk and why do they think you should vote for them? Retrieved July 12, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Home | Catherine ROWETT | MPs | European Parliament. Retrieved July 12, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Rowett, Catherine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Osborne, Catherine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British philosopher and politician (GPEW), MEP
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Yeovil