Angie Hobbs
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Angela Hunter Hobbs is a British philosopher. Hobbs is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Warwick
University of Warwick
The University of Warwick is a public research university located in Coventry, United Kingdom...

, and was previously a Research Fellow at Christ's College, Cambridge
Christ's College, Cambridge
Christ's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.With a reputation for high academic standards, Christ's College averaged top place in the Tompkins Table from 1980-2000 . In 2011, Christ's was placed sixth.-College history:...

. She has a First Class Honours Degree
Academic degree
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 in Classics acquired at New Hall, Cambridge and a PhD in Classical Philosophy from the University of Cambridge. She is a specialist in Platonic ethics and moral psychology
Moral psychology
Moral psychology is a field of study in both philosophy and psychology. Some use the term "moral psychology" relatively narrowly to refer to the study of moral development. However, others tend to use the term more broadly to include any topics at the intersection of ethics and psychology and...

 concerned with value conflicts, and whether it is possible or desirable to resolve them. Her research interest is in ethics
Ethics
Ethics, also known as moral philosophy, is a branch of philosophy that addresses questions about morality—that is, concepts such as good and evil, right and wrong, virtue and vice, justice and crime, etc.Major branches of ethics include:...

, and her research has focused on Platonic ethics and moral psychology, and their foundations in his metaphysics
Metaphysics
Metaphysics is a branch of philosophy concerned with explaining the fundamental nature of being and the world, although the term is not easily defined. Traditionally, metaphysics attempts to answer two basic questions in the broadest possible terms:...

. She is currently working on a translation of Plato's Symposium
Symposium (Plato)
The Symposium is a philosophical text by Plato dated c. 385–380 BCE. It concerns itself at one level with the genesis, purpose and nature of love....

 with a commentary for Oxford University Press.

She is a frequent contributor to radio programmes in the UK, including numerous appearances on the BBC Radio 4 programme In Our Time
In Our Time (BBC Radio 4)
In Our Time is a live BBC radio discussion series exploring the history of ideas, presented by Melvyn Bragg since 15 October 1998.. It is one of BBC radio's most successful discussion programmes, acknowledged to have "transformed the landscape for serious ideas at peak listening time"...

hosted by Melvyn Bragg
Melvyn Bragg
Melvyn Bragg, Baron Bragg FRSL FRTS FBA, FRS FRSA is an English broadcaster and author best known for his work with the BBC and for presenting the The South Bank Show...

. Hobbs has also appeared on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves and the BBC World Services' The Forum. Her contributions to this latter programme usually concern classical thought on a given subject which has interrelated literary and scientific levels: Plato
Plato
Plato , was a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Along with his mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato helped to lay the...

 on Love, Parmenides
Parmenides
Parmenides of Elea was an ancient Greek philosopher born in Elea, a Greek city on the southern coast of Italy. He was the founder of the Eleatic school of philosophy. The single known work of Parmenides is a poem, On Nature, which has survived only in fragmentary form. In this poem, Parmenides...

 on Time etc.

On 6 October 2009 the University of Warwick announced that they had appointed her to be the first ever UK "Senior Fellow in the Public Understanding of Philosophy", charged with bringing philosophy to as wide an audience as possible in Britain and beyond.

Ms. Hobbs is also a contributor to the programme Finding Atlantis on the National Geographic Channel
National Geographic Channel
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in America, no doubt due to her expertise regarding Plato.

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