Catherine Rowett works on ancient philosophy, and is the author of Rethinking Early Greek Philosophy (1987), Eros Unveiled (1994), Presocratic Philosophy, a very short introduction (2004), Dumb Beasts and Dead Philosophers (2007), Knowledge and Truth in Plato (2018). She is currently writing on Plato’s Republic, Symposium, and Crito, as well as on questions about how matter figures in the thought of Presocratic Philosophers. Besides her academic career she is a serving politician. She was elected as a member of the European Parliament (GreenParty) in 2019 (ended by Brexit in 2020), elected as County Councillor for West Depwade on Norfolk County Council in July 2023, and she is the General Election candidate for South Norfolk, and GreenParty National Spokesperson on Work, Employment and Social Security. She is professor emerita at the University of East Anglia.
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