Professor Catherine Rowett
Personal details:
Present Position:
Full name:
Catherine Joanna Rowett
formerly known as
(1979-2011):
Catherine Osborne
Professor of Philosophy,
Dept of Philosophy, University of East Anglia, Norwich.
Promotions: Professor 2008; Reader 2006.
Appointed Lecturer Grade B 2003.
Previous appointments:
2000-2003
University of Liverpool (Classics), Reader in Greek Culture.
1990-2000
University of Wales Swansea (Dept of Philosophy).
Promotions: Reader 1999; Senior Lecturer 1996.
Appointed Lecturer Grade B 1990.
Education:
Degrees:
1987-90
British Academy Post-doctoral Research Fellow (held in the Subfaculty of Philosophy, Oxford).
Senior Research Fellow, St. Anne's College, Oxford. (Concurrently).
1984-7
Junior Research Fellow, New Hall, Cambridge.
1983-4
Full time motherhood.
1979-1983
Research Student, King's College, Cambridge.
PhD 1983,
Thesis on Presocratic Philosophy and Patristic thought.
1976-9
1969-75
King's College, Cambridge.
Classical Tripos, part 1 1978,
Classical Tripos part 2 1979 (Group B).
Mary Datchelor Girls' School, London SE 5.
1967-9
Ranelagh School, Bracknell, Berks.
B.A. (Cantab.) 1979
M.A. (Cantab.) 1983
PhD. (Cantab.) 1983
M.A. and DPhil (Oxon) by incorporation, 1988.
Political Party membership and campaigns:
Green Party (since around 2005).
2015 General Election: selected as PPC for South Norfolk.
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Major Publications
Books:
1.
Catherine Osborne Rethinking Early Greek Philosophy: Hippolytus of Rome and the Presocratics.
London (Duckworth) and Ithaca (Cornell University Press) 1987, pp. viii + 383 [ISBN 0-71561975-6].
2.
Catherine Osborne Eros Unveiled: Plato and the God of Love Oxford, Clarendon Press 1994, pp.
xiv + 246 [ISBN 0-19-826761-4]. Paperback edition 1996.
3.
Catherine Osborne Presocratic Philosophy: a very short introduction, Oxford University Press,
2004, pp. xviii + 144 [ISBN 0-19-284094-0].
Greek edition: Προσωκρατική φιλοσοφία: Όλα όσα πρέπει να γνωρίζετε, translated by AlexandrosStamatios Antoniou, Athens: Ελληνικά Γράμματα, 2006 [ISBN 960-442-787-3].
4.
Philoponus Commentary on Aristotle's Physics book 1.1-3, translated into English (for the first
time) with introduction and notes by Catherine Osborne; Series editor Richard Sorabji.
Duckworth, 2006, pp vi + 185 [ISBN 0 7156 3409 7].
5.
Catherine Osborne Dumb beasts and dead philosophers: humanity and the humane in ancient
philosophy and literature Oxford University Press 2007, pp. 262 [ISBN 978-0-19-928206-7].
Published to Oxford Scholarship online in 2008. Paperback edition 2009.
6.
Philoponus Commentary on Aristotle's Physics book 1.4-9, translated into English (for the first
time) with introduction and notes by Catherine Osborne. Duckworth 2009, pp. vii + 152 [ISBN
978-0-7156-3787-6].
[Forthcoming and in preparation]
7.
Catherine Rowett Plato on Knowledge and Truth, contracted with OUP, expected 2015.
Service to professional bodies, miscellaneous professional
activities
Date
2012present
2011-14
2010-2015
Office
Leverhulme Trust Advisory Panel
REF 2014 SubPanel member,
Panel D 32 (Philosophy), (HEFCE)
AHRC Strategic Reviewer
2009
AHRC Panel member and panel
chair for two ranking panels
2005-2009
AHRC Research Committee Panel
8 (Philosophy, Theology, Law),
member
AHRC Convenor of Panel 8 (Sept
2008 to June 2009); Deputy
Chair/Acting Chair of Panel 8
(summer 2008)
AHRC Peer Review College
Norwich Cathedral Education
Advisory Committee
Royal Institute of Philosophy
2007-2009
2009-15,
2010-11
2008present
2004-5
2000-2006
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Higher Education Academy
QAA Specialist subject reviewer,
Major achievements/activities
Assessing outline submissions in theology, religious
studies and philosophy.
Research Excellence Framework consultation and
assessment for evaluating UK research in Philosophy.
A position of higher responsibility by invitation from
AHRC.
Assessing and introducing applications for AHRC
research grants and research leave; attending panel
meetings; taking part in ranking procedure; overseeing
feedback for applicants graded with resubmission
grades.
Assessing and ranking applications for AHRC research
grants and research leave; attending panel meetings;
monitoring of end of award reports.
Chairing panel meetings, dealing with chairman's
business.
Reviewing grant applications.
Member
Member of Council
Classics Advisory Panel
Conducted reviews of Edinburgh Classics and UCL
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1998- 2003
1994-6,
1999-2000
1991-4
Academic Review (Scotland) and
Subject Review (England and
Wales)
Aristotelian Society
AUT local association Swansea
philosophy.
Society for the Promotion of
Hellenic Studies
Council member
Executive committee
Elected committee member
Media, Impact and Outreach
REF case study
REF2014:
My impact case study “Putting Presocratic Philosophy to Work” was submitted as one of two
case studies for the UEA Philosophy REF submission. This traces the impact of my work in
Presocratic philosophy over the period 2003 to 2014, on audiences outside academia, and
claims impact on cultural life, and economic well-being, in the UK and beyond. Key features of
the impact include distribution and sales of my Very Short Introduction in English (sales figures
over 13,000) and in Greek (over 44,000 distributed free with ΤΟ ΒΗΜΑ), podcast hits (over
14,000 in five months) for an FEP Consilience debate, on theories about the origins of
humanity, in London, and the influence of my work in inspiring Alexander Davidson to write his
guide to investing in the stockmarket (The Money Myth: A Classic Introduction to the Modern
World of Finance and Investing).
Media
BBC Radio 4:
Recording (June 2013) for brief interviews within two series of programmes called
‘The ideas that make us’ with Bettany Hughes, to be broadcast 16-20 September 2013
and sometime in January 2014.
Public-facing activities over the past five years:
25th March 2015
27th April 2015
17th February 2015
22nd Nov 2014, 7th Feb
2015
February 16th 2013
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Lecture "Why Socrates Matters" at Oxford Brookes University "Why
Philosophy Matters"
Forum for European Philosophy pre-election discussion on morality and
politics
Response to Andy Haldane, Chief Economist of the Bank of England at
UEA Philosopher Kings event. (on economic growth).
Introduction to Church History and Doctrine I and II (two half-day courses
for the NCCL, co taught with Peter Doll).
NCCL Study half-day on the poetry of hymns, Norwich.
October 25 2012
Public Lecture, UEA Norwich. "Learning from Greece: thinking about
austerity and monetary union in Pythagorean and Platonic politics".
May 2012
Weekend school on Presocratic philosophy with Malcolm Schofield,
Oxford Extramural dept.
April 2012
Participant in Forum for European Philosophy Consilience panel "Genesis",
LSE London.
10th Feb 2012
Café Philosophique, on Plato’s Republic, at Marzano’s café, The Forum,
Norwich
Nov 2011
Invited lecture for Royal Institute lectures at Roehampton
Nov 2010
Gallery talk (on animals and philosophy) for surrealism exhibition, SCVA
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