Warnock, Mary (1924–)
Warnock, Mary (1924–)
British philosopher. Name variations: Baroness Helen Mary Warnock. Born Helen Mary Wilson, April 14, 1924, in Winchester, England; Oxford University, BA and DPhil; m. Sir Geoffrey James Warnock (philosopher), 1949; children: 5.
Major contributor to 20th-century debates on ethics and education, was educated at Oxford where she became tutor in philosophy at St. Hugh's College; worked as headmistress of Oxford High School and returned to teach at Oxford (1972), before becoming mistress of Girton College, Cambridge; led government commissions into special education, animal experiments, environmental pollution, human fertilization and teaching; works include Modern Ethics (1960), Sartre (1963), Existentialism (1966), Imagination (1976), Schools of Thought (1977), Education: A Way Forward (1979), A Question of Life (1985), Memory (1987), The Uses of Philosophy (1992), and Imagination and Time (1994). Named Dame Commander of the British Empire (DEB, 1984); created baroness (1985).