Professor in Philosophy from 1991 to 2003 and then a Professor in the Departments of Philosophy and Electrical and Helen Jones (1969) Computer Engineering (2003–2014). She became Professor Emeritus in 2014. Anne was President-elect/President of An Oxford contemporary remembers the University of Houston Faculty Senate (2002–2004) Helen as a student, with ‘natural and Director of the Center for Neuro-Engineering and blonde good looks and a slow, Cognitive Science. Externally, she served on several American infectious and ultimately bubbling Philosophical Association programs and committees. smile’ as well as ‘a sense that she Anne’s research focused on the philosophy of mind and knew who she was and what she cognitive neuroscience, including the history and philosophy was about: far more than most of of cognitive science, the philosophy of David Hume, and us at that age’. One anecdote of feminist philosophy. In 2012, she published Neurofeminism, that time gives a flavour of their co-edited with Heidi Maibom and Robyn Bluhm, on issues at enjoyment of College life. ‘It would HELEN JONES the intersection of feminist theory and cognitive science. In not have been Oxford at the end her powerful monograph Keeping the World in Mind: Mental of the sixties without the odd sixties moment. Helen and Representations and the Sciences of the Mind, as well as in her friend Belinda turning up a for a rehearsal for a college many articles, she challenged dominant standard accounts by production of Noel Coward’s Private Lives having been plied extending the discussion of mental representations to include with a hash-laden chocolate cake by a passing Vietnam veteran psychology and neuroscience. Her ability to challenge internal – and there is an awful lot about the sixties in just those few and external disciplinary boundaries also marked her roles as words. To the director’s distinct bemusement, they giggled a feminist advocate and a feminist philosopher, leading to her brilliantly in all the right places – but also in many of the wrong appointment as Editor in Chief of Wiley-Blackwell's proposed ones.’ 5-volume Encyclopedia of Women in Philosophy. Helen’s self-confidence meant that she continued to be a Anne had a wide network of friends and made good use of supportive friend to her contemporaries and she developed the internet in sustaining this. She was regularly in contact that supportiveness professionally too, alongside the astute with philosophers overseas, many of whom she first met judgement and incisive thinking fostered by her History and in Oxford. A great lover of Oxford, after her retirement she Modern Languages degree at Somerville. After some years in spent significant amounts of time in an apartment overlooking social work, she was appointed to the Department of Health the canal within walking distance of Somerville. Apart from as a Social Services Inspector and one of her first tasks was her serious academic side, Anne enjoyed reading novels of to oversee the implementation of a programme to assess different genres, including detective stories, and she was outcomes for children in care and identify improvements. Local a great cat lover. She will be fondly remembered for her authorities had parental responsibilities for the children they intellect, her humour, her graciousness, her love of family and looked after and, the first time they were asked to provide philosophy, and for her cats. information, only one in three Directors of Children’s Services 48