Angie Hobbs

Angela Hunter Hobbs (born 1961 in Sussex) is a British philosopher. Hobbs is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Warwick, and was previously a Research Fellow at Christ's College, Cambridge. She has a First Class Honours Degree in Classics acquired at New Hall, Cambridge and a PhD in Classical Philosophy from the University of Cambridge. She is a specialist in Platonic ethics and moral psychology concerned with value conflicts, and whether it is possible or desirable to resolve them. Her research interest is in ethics, and her research has focused on Platonic ethics and moral psychology, and their foundations in his metaphysics.

She is a frequent contributor to radio programmes in the UK, including numerous appearances on the BBC Radio 4 programme "In Our Time" hosted by Melvyn Bragg.

Bibliography

* "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 and 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.

External links

* [http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/staff/hobbs/ Homepage at University of Warwick]