Iris Murdoch & the Metaphysics of the Good

Iris Murdoch is best known as a writer of novels. She wrote twenty-six of them, most focusing on the lives of middle-class professionals in part to explore the question of human freedom versus the many varieties of determinism. One of the novels, The Sea, The Sea, won the Booker Prize in 1978. She was also a formidable student of philosophy, producing five books and countless essays in her field even while teaching the subject at Oxford for many years.