User:Jlthompson/Muirhead society

The Muirhead Society was founded at a meeting in Birmingham on the 30th September 1954. It was named after John Henry Muirhead (April 28, 1855 - May 24, 1940) a British philosopher who was the first Chair of Philosophy at the University of Birmingham. Meetings of the Society were originally intended to be held in Birmingham about once a month during the academic year from October to June. They took the form of an address followed by discussion. By 1958 the Society was meeting, still in Birmingham about eight times a year, usually on Saturday afternoons. The Society's object was the reading and discussion of philosophical papers, and members were expected to have some proficiency in such discussion. Members paid an annual subscription fee. Many prominent philosophers read papers before the Society including: G. E. M. Anscombe, J. L. Austin, A. J. Ayer, W. H. F. Barnes, R. B. Braithwaite, D. Emmet, A. C. Ewing, W. Kneale, S.Korner, W. G. Maclagan, Bernard Mayo, P. H. Nowell-Smith, A. N. Prior, G. Ryle. The Muirhead Society became the Midlands Philosophical Group. References