Rosalind Hursthouse: Difference between revisions - Wikipedia

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|name = Rosalind Hursthouse

|nationality = [[New Zealand]]

|school_tradition = [[Analytic philosophy]], [[Virtue ethics]], [[neo-Aristotelianism]]

|main_interests = [[Applied Ethics]], [[Normative Ethics]], [[Ancient Philosophy]], [[Action theory (philosophy)|Action theory]],

|notable_ideas = Neo-Aristotelianism<br>V-Rules<br>Neo-Aristotelian Virtue Ethics<br>V-RulesPlato's Requirement on the Virtues<br>Neo-Aristotelian Ethical Naturalism<br>Neo-Aristotelian Enlightened Self-Interest

|influences = [[Aristotle]], [[Elizabeth Anscombe]], [[Philippa Foot]]

|influenced =

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|relatives={{nowrap|[[Richmond Hursthouse]] (great-grandfather)}}

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|institutions={{Ubl | [[University of Auckland]] | [[OxfordOpen University]] | [[OpenOxford University]]}}

|notable_works=''On Virtue Ethics''

|awards=Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand

|education=[[Victoria University of Wellington]]<br>[[University of Auckland]], BA, MA<br>[[University of Oxford]], BPhil, DPhil

}}

'''Rosalind Mary Hursthouse''' <small>[[FRSNZ]]</small> (born 10 November 1943) is a British-born New Zealand [[moral philosopher]] noted for her work on [[virtue ethics]]. She is [[Professor Emerita]] of Philosophy at the [[University of Auckland]] and Fellow of the [[Royal Society of New Zealand]].

==Biography==▼

Hursthouse, who was mentored by [[Elizabeth Anscombe]] and [[Philippa Foot]], is best known as a [[virtue ethics|virtue ethicist]].<ref>

Hursthouse was born in [[Bristol, England]] on 10 November 1943 to [[William Weldon Oliver Hursthouse]] (10 July 1914 – 19 April 2017)<ref>{{Cite web |title=William HURSTHOUSE Obituary (2017) - The New Zealand Herald |url=https://notices.nzherald.co.nz/nz/obituaries/nzherald-nz/name/william-hursthouse-obituary?id=43737963 |access-date=2023-09-06 |website=Legacy.com}}</ref> and [[Jay Hursthouse|Jay]], but she and her younger brother, William, grew up in [[Wellington, New Zealand]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://search.ancestry.com.au/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=try&db=ONSBirth84&h=34121797 |title=England & Wales, birth index, 1916–2005 |year=2008 |publisher=Ancestry.com Operations |access-date=5 March 2016 |url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> She is a member of the notable [[:Category:Atkinson–Hursthouse–Richmond family|Atkinson–Hursthouse–Richmond family]] of New Zealand and a descendant of the [[Hursthouse family]] of England, which traces back to the first [[John Hursthouse]] who immigrated from [[Holland]] in the 1600s.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hursthouse Family |url=https://winsomegriffin.com/Newsham/HursthouseEngland.html |access-date=2023-09-06 |website=winsomegriffin.com}}</ref>

As a 17-year-old, Hursthouse was inspired to study [[philosophy]] by her Aunt Mary after an argument at the dinner table.<ref name=":0">{{cite news |last1=Cheng |first1=Derek |title=The X-pert Files: Rosalind Hursthouse |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10362469 |access-date=19 February 2016 |work=[[The New Zealand Herald]] |date=5 January 2006}}</ref> She enrolled the next year at [[Victoria University of Wellington]] and then transferred to the [[University of Auckland]], where she earned her BA (1964) and MA (1965) in Philosophy and was subsequently appointed as Junior Lecturer in Philosophy.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Annas Julia, Reid Jeremy |first= |title=Virtue and Action: Selected Papers |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2022 |isbn=978-0192895844 |pages=1-20}}</ref><ref>

{{cite book |last=Slote |first=Michael |url=http://books.publishing.monash.edu/apps/bookworm/view/A+Companion+to+Philosophy+in+Australia+and+New+Zealand/56/xhtml/title.html#title |title=A Companion to Philosophy in Australia & New Zealand |publisher=Monash University Publishing |year=2010 |isbn=978-0-9806512-1-8 |editor1-last=Graham |editor1-first=Oppy |edition=Web |chapter=Hursthouse, Rosalind |quote=Hursthouse is best known as a virtue ethicist, and most of her work, both theoretical and applied, has exemplified that approach. |author-link=Michael Slote |access-date=18 September 2011 |editor2-last=Trakakis |editor2-first=N.N. |chapter-url=http://books.publishing.monash.edu/apps/bookworm/view/A+Companion+to+Philosophy+in+Australia+and+New+Zealand/56/xhtml/chapter08.html#chapter08sec02}}

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</ref> Her work is deeply grounded in the history of philosophy, and especially in [[Aristotle]]'s [[Nicomachean Ethics|Ethics]], about which she has written extensively.

In 1966, Hursthouse went up to the [[University of Oxford]] to read for the [[BPhil]] (1968) on a postgraduate scholarship,<ref name=":1" /> going on to read for the [[DPhil]] (1974) at [[Somerville College, Oxford|Somerville College]] while working as Stipendiary Lecturer in Philosophy at [[Corpus Christi College, Oxford|Corpus Christi College]], making her the first woman to teach at an all men’s college in Oxford.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Patrick |first=Harriet |date=December 2019 |title=A Brief History of Women’s Arrival at Corpus |url=https://www.ccc.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2020-02/pelican_record_2019_compressed.pdf |journal=The Pelican Record |volume=LV |pages=19-24}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Harrison |first=Brian |date=December 2018 |title=The Secret History of Corpus SCR |url=https://www.ccc.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2020-01/pelican_record_18_compressed.pdf |journal=The Pelican Record |volume=LIV |pages=39-56}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Team |first=Flagstaff |date=2018-09-05 |title=Interview: philosopher Rosalind Hursthouse |url=https://devonportflagstaff.co.nz/interview-philosopher-rosalind-hursthouse/ |access-date=2023-08-30 |website=The Devonport Flagstaff |language=en-US}}</ref>

▲==Biography==

Rosalind Hursthouse was born in [[Bristol, England]] in 1943 to [[William Weldon Oliver Hursthouse|William ("Bill") ("Willa") Weldon Oliver Hursthouse]] and [[Jay Hursthouse|Jay]], but she and her younger brother William grew up in [[Wellington, New Zealand]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://search.ancestry.com.au/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=try&db=ONSBirth84&h=34121797 |title=England & Wales, birth index, 1916–2005 |year=2008 |publisher=Ancestry.com Operations |access-date=5 March 2016 |url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> As a 17-year-old, Hursthouse was inspired to study [[philosophy]] by her Aunt Mary after a good argument at the dinner table.<ref name=":0">{{cite news |last1=Cheng |first1=Derek |title=The X-pert Files: Rosalind Hursthouse |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10362469 |access-date=19 February 2016 |work=[[The New Zealand Herald]] |date=5 January 2006}}</ref> She enrolled at [[Victoria University of Wellington|Victoria University]] and then transferred to the [[University of Auckland]], where she was awarded her BA (1964) and MA (1965) in Philosophy and subsequently appointed as Junior Lecturer in Philosophy.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Annas Julia, Reid Jeremy |first= |title=Virtue and Action: Selected Papers |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2022 |isbn=978-0192895844 |pages=1-20}}</ref> In 1966, Hursthouse went up to the [[University of Oxford]] to read for the BPhil (1968) on a postgraduate scholarship,<ref name=":1" /> going on to read for the DPhil (1974) while working as Stipendiary Lecturer in Philosophy at [[Corpus Christi College, Oxford|Corpus Christi College]], making her the first woman to teach at an all men’s college in Oxford.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Patrick |first=Harriet |date=December 2019 |title=A Brief History of Women’s Arrival at Corpus |url=https://www.ccc.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2020-02/pelican_record_2019_compressed.pdf |journal=The Pelican Record |volume=LV |pages=19-24}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Harrison |first=Brian |date=December 2018 |title=The Secret History of Corpus SCR |url=https://www.ccc.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2020-01/pelican_record_18_compressed.pdf |journal=The Pelican Record |volume=LIV |pages=39-56}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Team |first=Flagstaff |date=2018-09-05 |title=Interview: philosopher Rosalind Hursthouse |url=https://devonportflagstaff.co.nz/interview-philosopher-rosalind-hursthouse/ |access-date=2023-08-30 |website=The Devonport Flagstaff |language=en-US}}</ref> She is an [[Alumni|alumna]] of [[Somerville College, Oxford|Somerville College]], where she was mentored by [[Elizabeth Anscombe]] and [[Philippa Foot]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lipscomb |first=Benjamin J.B. |title=The Women Are Up to Something: How Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch Revolutionized Ethics The Women Are Up to Something: How Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch Revolutionized Ethics |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2022 |isbn=978-0197541074 |pages=171–199}}</ref>

While at Somerville, Hursthouse was mentored by [[Elizabeth Anscombe]] and [[Philippa Foot]], both of whom would become for her lifelong friends and sources of philosophical inspiration.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lipscomb |first=Benjamin J.B. |title=The Women Are Up to Something: How Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch Revolutionized Ethics The Women Are Up to Something: How Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch Revolutionized Ethics |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2022 |isbn=978-0197541074 |pages=171–199}}</ref>

== Career ==

After lecturingteaching at the [[University of Auckland]] and [[Corpus Christi College, Oxford|Corpus Christi College]], Hursthouse joined the ranks of the founding stafffaculty of the [[Open University]] in hopes of working with disadvantaged students who had little to no background in philosophy. In 1975, she startedwas appointed as Lecturer at the [[Open University]], where she remained for the next 25 years, eventually becoming Senior Lecturer andas well as Head of Department.<ref name=":1" /> Hursthouse has also held visiting positions at the [[University of California, Los Angeles]], the [[University of California, San Diego]], the [[University of Auckland]], the [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill|University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill]], [[Stanford University]], and the [[University of California, Berkeley]] (Mills Distinguished Visiting Professor in Moral and Intellectual Philosophy and Civil Polity1991–1997).<ref name=":1" />

Hursthouse is best known as a [[virtue ethics|virtue ethicist]]. Her work is deeply grounded in the history of philosophy, and especially in [[Aristotle]]'s [[Nicomachean Ethics|Ethics]]. Though she had already written aextensively substantialon amountthese previouslytopics, Hursthouse first entered the international philosophical scene forbetween the1990 firstand time1991 inwith 1990–91,the withfollowing three articles:

{{Ordered list | "Arational Actions", which made a break with the view that the explanation of [[action (philosophy)|action]] by reference to reasons (an "intention") is also a species of event-causal explanation in the sense familiar from the work of [[Donald Davidson (philosopher)|Donald Davidson]]. By showing that some bona fide intentional actions are explained arationally, Hursthouse argues, by counterexample, that Davidson's account of reasons as causes of action is mistaken. Hursthouse turns her philosophical attention, and ours, to the kinds of reasons asked for and given by [[human beings]] in the [[explanation]] of [[human behaviour]]: the behaviour of [[emotion]]al, [[reason|rational]], [[community|social]], [[public|political]], [[language|linguistic]], [[law]]ful [[animals]].

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Hursthouse has emphasised the practical nature of virtue ethics in her books ''Beginning Lives'' and ''Ethics, Humans, and Other Animals''. Her most substantial contribution to modern virtue ethics is her book ''On Virtue Ethics'', which explores its structure as a distinctive action-guiding theory, the relationship between virtue, the emotions and moral motivation, and the place of the virtues within an overall account of human flourishing. It also expands Hursthouse's formulation of right action in terms of what a virtuous person would characteristically do in a situation.

Hursthouse has held visiting positions at the [[University of California, Los Angeles]], the [[University of California, San Diego]], the [[University of Auckland]], the [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill|University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill]], [[Stanford University]], and the [[University of California, Berkeley]] (Mills Distinguished Visiting Professor in Moral and Intellectual Philosophy and Civil Polity).<ref name=":1" />

In 2002, Hursthouse returned to New Zealand to be with her aging father, and she was appointed as Professor of Philosophy and Head of Department (2002–2005) at the [[University of Auckland]].<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" /> In 2016, she retired from the [[University of Auckland]], where she is now [[Professor Emerita]] of Philosophy,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://profiles.auckland.ac.nz/r-hursthouse/about |title=About Rosalind Hursthouse |access-date=2023-08-30 |website=profiles.auckland.ac.nz}}</ref> and she was elected a Fellow of the [[Royal Society of New Zealand]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=2016 Professor Rosalind Hursthouse FRSNZ |url=https://www.royalsociety.org.nz/who-we-are/our-people/our-fellows/new-fellow-seminars/new-fellows-seminars/professor-rosalind-hursthouse-frsnz/ |access-date=2023-08-30 |website=Royal Society Te Apārangi}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |year=2017 |title=List of all Fellows with surnames G–I |url=http://royalsociety.org.nz/who-we-are/our-people/our-fellows/all-fellows/g-i/ |access-date=24 April 2017 |publisher=Royal Society of New Zealand}}</ref>▼

▲In 2002, Hursthouse returnedaccepted toan Newappointment Zealandas toProfessor beof withPhilosophy herat agingthe father,[[University andof sheAuckland]], was appointedserving as ProfessorHead of PhilosophyDepartment anduntil Head2005, ofin Departmentorder (2002–2005)to atreturn thehome [[Universityto ofNew Zealand and Auckland]]be with her aging father.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" /> In 2016, she retired from the [[UniversityAs of Auckland]]2016, where she is now [[Professor Emerita]] of Philosophy,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://profiles.auckland.ac.nz/r-hursthouse/about |title=About Rosalind Hursthouse |access-date=2023-08-30 |website=profiles.auckland.ac.nz}}</ref> and she was elected aas Fellow of the [[Royal Society of New Zealand]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=2016 Professor Rosalind Hursthouse FRSNZ |url=https://www.royalsociety.org.nz/who-we-are/our-people/our-fellows/new-fellow-seminars/new-fellows-seminars/professor-rosalind-hursthouse-frsnz/ |access-date=2023-08-30 |website=Royal Society Te Apārangi}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |year=2017 |title=List of all Fellows with surnames G–I |url=http://royalsociety.org.nz/who-we-are/our-people/our-fellows/all-fellows/g-i/ |access-date=24 April 2017 |publisher=Royal Society of New Zealand}}</ref> and retired from her academic career at the [[University of Auckland]], where she is now [[Professor Emerita]] of Philosophy.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://profiles.auckland.ac.nz/r-hursthouse/about |title=About Rosalind Hursthouse |access-date=2023-08-30 |website=profiles.auckland.ac.nz}}</ref>

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