Mary Warnock was born in Winchester in 1924. She is best known for her writings on Sartre and on imagination, and for the controversial An Intelligent Person's Guide to Ethics. A professional philosopher who has taught philosophy at both Oxford and Cambridge, she has also chaired various government committees of enquiry, including the Enquiry into Human Fertilisation set up by Margaret Thatcher in 1982. She was made a Life Peer in 1985 and sits in the House of Lords as a cross-bencher.
'... provides a fascinating glimpse of a time and place where people thrived on intellectual discussion and ideas were valuable in their own right.' Breda O'Brien, The Irish Times; 'Clearly written and full of Lady Warnock's famed discernment and judgement' Jessica Mann, Literary Review
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