The 2025 Iris Murdoch Summer School will look at Iris Murdoch in the 1970s. We will be studying A Fairly Honourable Defeat, An Accidental Man, The Black Prince and The Sea, The Sea.
Prof. Peter Garrard Iris Murdoch’s profound and well-documented late life cognitive decline was caused by the accumulation of amyloid plaques and tau tangles in her brain: the molecular signature of Alzheimer’s disease. Yet plaque and tangle deposition begins many years, if not decades, before cognitive changes first emerge, so the discovery of methods for defining […]