Gabriele Taylor, emeritus fellow in philosophy at St. Anne’s College, University of Oxford, has died.
Gabriele Taylor was known for her work in moral philosophy, especially moral psychology. She is the author of Pride, Shame, and Guilt: Emotions of Self-Assessment (1985) and Deadly Vices (2006), among other works, which you can learn more about here.
She earned her B.Phil at St. Anne’s and taught there for a while, and then moved to Australia to teach at University College of Canberra. She returned to St. Anne’s in 1964 and was a fellow there until her retirement in 1996.
Her collected essays, as well as a memoir, will be published next year, edited by her former student, Constantine Sandis.
You can listen to an interview with Gabriele Taylor about her life and work, conducted in 2011, here.
St. Anne’s College has posted a brief memorial notice here.
(via Roger Crisp)
I met Gabriele in the late 1980s when I arrived at St Anne’s College as a philosophy JRF. She was in full swing as the Philosophy Fellow at the time, and I made friends with her very quickly. She was a fabulous friend: witty, kind, sensible, phenomenally modest about her immensely cultured and incisive mind and constantly interested in my life as it unfolded. What a huge loss to the world.
RIP Gabriele. Gabriele Taylor taught me Philosophy at St. Anne’s College, Oxford, in 1989-90, after which I specialised in Politics & Economics. A charming, pleasant lady. I will never forget her and can’t thank her more for introducing me to David Hume and John Stuart Mill.