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Mary, Mary

2 December 2000

In Mary Warnock, Warnock entertains with her charming personal
history and carefully crafted gossip—right down to Margaret Thatcher’s
hairstyle. But it is unsettling that such an influential person regards the
word-splitting philosophies of Gilbert Ryle as the heyday of Oxford, let alone
philosophy. Published by Gerald Duckworth, £18, ISBN 0715629557.

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