Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman are philosophy lecturers, friends and co-authors of Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy back to Life, about Iris Murdoch, Philippa Foot, Elizabeth Anscombe and Mary Midgley.

This conversation, part of an international conference dedicated to ‘the art of biography’, sheds light on the writing of this collaborative work.  

Mac Cumhaill and Wiseman are also co-founders of In Parenthesis, a scholarly project that makes the case for analytic philosophy’s first all-female philosophical school.