In recent years, a new scholarly gaze has been cast on four women‒Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch‒who have come to be known as the ‘Wartime Quartet’. During the postwar period, when women were still scarce in the discipline, these four flourished as philosophers. New details about their wartime education give us materials to reflect on what enabled them to develop their unique philosophical voices. Their work dispels widespread philosophical dogmas, especially scientistic interpretations of naturalism that exclude value from the fabric of reality. Through their attention to the details of ordinary life, they avoid flattening the complexities of moral learning, especially where this involves navigating intergenerational differences. The articles in this Suite look to the Wartime Quartet's writings and learning conditions to show that, far from being of purely historical interest, they shed fresh light on the aims and challenges of moral education and offer a critical perspective on current pedagogical practices‒particularly in the teaching of philosophy.

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作为形而上学动物的教学、学习和哲学思考：导言

近年来，新的学术目光投向了四位女性——伊丽莎白·安斯科姆、菲利帕·富特、玛丽·米奇利和艾里斯·默多克——她们被称为“战时四重奏”。在战后时期，当该学科的女性仍然稀缺时，这四位哲学家却蒸蒸日上。关于他们战时教育的新细节为我们提供了材料来反思是什么让他们发展出他们独特的哲学声音。他们的工作消除了普遍存在的哲学教条，尤其是对自然主义的科学解释，这些解释将价值排除在现实结构之外。通过他们对日常生活细节的关注，他们避免了道德学习的复杂性变得平淡无奇，尤其是在涉及驾驭代际差异的情况下。本组中的文章着眼于战时四重奏