Helen Knight
(Elsie) Helen Knight (née Weil, 24 November 1899 – 1984) was a British
Life and education
Knight was born in Swiss Cottage, London and attended Fremarch School, Hampstead. She began her BA at
Career
Knight was one of a select group to whom Ludwig Wittgenstein dictated his Blue and Brown Books in the 1930s, which outline the transition in Wittgenstein's thought between his two major works, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and Philosophical Investigations.[3]
Knight became a member of the Aristotelian Society in 1922, acting in its executive committee for several terms. Her research area included metaphysics, seen from a Wittgensteinian angle. Between 1935 and 1941 she was a researcher in aesthetics at Cambridge. From 1927 on she published well-received papers on aesthetics for different philosophical journals (Mind, Philosophy and others).[4] In 1945 she addressed the Aristotelian Society, talking about the Women's Graduate Club in Cambridge. "Judging by the calibre of co-presenters, discussants and commentators of her papers, her work was admired and taken seriously.".[5]
In 1949 Knight emigrated to Australia, where she became a tutor in English literature at Janet Clarke Hall, University of Melbourne until the 1960s.[6] She died in Melbourne, Australia aged 84.[7]
Publications
Her work was well received and continues to be included in modern anthologies of aesthetics,[8] as well as in works on metaphysics and epistemology.[9]
- E. Helen Knight (1927). Aesthetic Theories of Mr. Richards. Mind, New Series, 34 (141) 69-76.
- Helen Knight (1928). Philosophy in Germany. Philosophy 6 (23):370 - 376.
- Helen Knight (1930). Aesthetic Experience in Pictorial Art. The Monist 40 (1):74-83.
- Helen Knight (1930). Sense-Form in Pictorial Art. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 31:143 - 160.
- Knight, H. (1933). A Note on “The Problem of Universals”. Analysis 1(1), 7–9.
- Reid, L. A., Knight, H., & Joad, C. E. M. (1932). Symposium: The Limits of Psychology in Aesthetics. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volumes, 11, 169–215.
- Helen Knight (1935). The Use of "Good" in Aesthetic Judgments. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 36:207 - 222.
- Helen Knight (1936). Stout on Universals. Mind 45 (177):45-60.
References
- ISBN 9780271043968.
- ^ Newnham College Roll Card
- ISBN 0742512703.
- ^ Waithe, Ellen (1995). A History of Women Philosophers Vol. 4. p. 330.
- ^ Waithe, Ellen (1995). A History of Women Philosophers Vol. 4. p. 330.
- ISBN 9780739127339.
- ^ "Births, Deaths and Marriages". Family History Search. State Government of Victoria. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
- ISBN 0915145081.
- ^ Jonathan Westphal, Colour: a Philosophical Introduction,1991, Aristotelian Society Series, (Oxford: Blackwell).