Throughout her career and later life is where Foot began her life in philosophy and wrote her many essays on the topic of moral philosophy. In her personal life, she had shared a flat with Iris Murdoch directly after they graduated out of college. However, their friendship was fairly short lived as Iris left historian MRD Foot, and caused him suffering. Philippa, as a way to console him, married him in 1945. After marrying, the couple moves back to Oxford where she begins a graduate scholarship at Somerville College, where she had previously graduated from. She made a living as a teacher there in the Somerville College and worked there for about 20 years. From 1967 to 1969 she was the vice-principal at Somerville and then from 1970 to
