She was educated at Somerville College, Oxford, matriculating in 1971,[4] where she completed in her BPhil in Philosophy (thesis title: 'Identity and Continuity') in 1978.
[6] Mackie worked in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Nottingham from 2004 until her death in 2022.
How Things Might Have Been (Oxford University Press, 2006) Sortals, Timelessness, and Transcendental Truth.
Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 95 (2021) Can Metaphysical Modality Be Based on Essence?
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