Biography
Jennifer Hornsby earned her Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge under the direction of Bernard Williams. She also earned a B.A. and M.Phil. from Oxford and London, respectively. She taught at the University of Oxford for 17 years before moving to Birkbeck College, London. She was president of the Aristotelian Society from 1996 to 1997. She is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
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