Biography
Benjamin J. B. Lipscomb is Professor of Philosophy and Director of Honors Programs at Houghton University in Houghton, New York. Trained as a moral philosopher, he has become increasingly interested in the history of thought. The project he brings to the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing at Wolfson College grows out of his first book, The Women are Up to Something: How Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch Revolutionized Ethics (Oxford University Press, 2022). All of the principal subjects of that book appeared extensively on the BBC in the post-war era, when the Corporation made a decision to promote scholarship–philosophy in particular–and the arts on the Third Programme. Lipscomb is working on a book about philosophical programming on the BBC in this era and about how it was received. When he isn’t in England doing archival research or teaching in his University’s honors program in London, he lives in a small hamlet in western New York State with his family.
Research Interests
Mid-twentieth-century British philosophy, contemporary moral philosophy