Angie Hobbs
Angela Hunter "Angie" Hobbs (born 12 June 1961) is a British
philosopher and academic, who specialises in Ancient Greek philosophy and ethics. She is Professor of the Public Understanding of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield
.
Early life and education
Hobbs was born on 12 June 1961 in Rudgwick, Sussex, England.[1] She was educated at The College of Richard Collyer, a state school in Horsham, West Sussex.[1]
In 1980, Hobbs
Master of Arts (MA Cantab) degree in 1986.[1]
She gained a PhD in Classical Philosophy (Cambridge).
Academic career
After a Research Fellowship at
political theory, and moral psychology
.
In April 2012, the University of Sheffield announced Hobbs' appointment as Professor of the Public Understanding of Philosophy, the first such chair in the UK. Hobbs is now preparing a translation of Plato's Symposium, with a commentary, for Oxford University Press.
She contributes to TV and radio programmes. These contributions include BBC Two's Night Waves and the BBC World Services The Forum.
On 1 February 2015, Hobbs was the castaway on Desert Island Discs on BBC Radio 4.[3]
Selected works
- Signed entries on ‘The Symposium’ and ‘Women’ in The Continuum Companion to Plato (ed. Gerald A. Press). Continuum, 2012.
- ‘On Christopher J. Gillon Particulars, Selves and Individuals in Stoic Philosophy’ in Particulars in Greek Philosophy (ed. R. W. Sharples). Brill: Leiden, 2010.
- Signed entries on ‘Virtue, Philosophical Conceptions of’ and ‘Virtue, Popular Conceptions of’ for The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome (Oxford University Press), 2010.
- ‘Socrates’ in Melvyn Bragg (ed.) In Our Time (a collection of transcripts of 26 programmes selected from several hundred). Hodder and Stoughton, 2009.
- Five revised signed entries for the 3rd ed. of the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics (ed. I McLean and A. McMillan): Plato; Aristotle; Greek Political Thought; Socrates; the Sophists. Oxford University Press, 2008.
- ‘Plato on war’ in Maieusis, a Festschrift in honour of Myles Burnyeat, edited by D. Scott . Oxford University Press, 2007.
- ‘Plato and psychic harmony: a recipe for mental health or mental sickness?’ in Philosophical Inquiry; vol. XXIX no. 5 (a special issue dedicated to the relation between ancient philosophy and contemporary bioethics), edited by Ron Polansky and Tony Chu, 2007.
- ‘Female imagery in Plato’ in Plato’s Symposium: Issues in Interpretation and Reception; edited by J. Lesher, D. Nails and F. Sheffield. Center for Hellenic Studies, Trustees for Harvard University Press, 2006.
- Plato and the Hero: Courage, Manliness and the Impersonal Good, Cambridge University Press, 2000.
- Entries on 'Antiphon', 'Callicles', 'Thrasymachus' and the 'Nomos/Physis debate' for the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Routledge, 1998.
- 'Commentary on "Aristotle's Function Argument and the Concept of Mental Illness"', Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology; 5, 1998, pp. 209–213
- Entries on 'Plato', 'Aristotle', 'Greek Political Theory', 'Socrates' and the 'Sophists' for The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics, Oxford University Press, 1996.
- Hobbs, Angie (7 February 2019). Plato's Republic. illus. Angelo Rinaldi. London: ISBN 978-0-7181-8852-8.
References
- ^ a b c d "HOBBS, Prof. Angela Hunter". Who's Who 2016. Oxford University Press. November 2015. Retrieved 14 June 2016.
- ^ a b "CURRICULUM VITAE". angiehobbs.com. Retrieved 14 June 2016.
- ^ Desert Island Discs' BBC Radio 4
External links
- Homepage
- Guardian article Angela Hobbs's new job is to promote public understanding of philosophy. Can she do for her subject what Dawkins did for his?
- "Philosophy for the Masses - A conversation with Angie Hobbs", Ideas Roadshow, 2013
- Angie Hobbs at IMDb
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