 Her earliest philosophy tutor at Somerville was Donald MacKinnon, a philosopher and theologian with an interest in Plotinus, Kant, and Hegel. Elizabeth Anscombe, Mary Midgley, Iris Murdoch, all of whom would go on to have celebrated careers in philosophy, were also at Somerville at the time. All four engaged philosophically with each other during their Somerville years and later (Hursthouse 2012: 182). Foot earned a BLitt from Somerville for her research on Kant in 1942, and then worked in London for the remainder of the war. At the end of the war, she married the military historian M.R.D. Foot (though the marriage came to an end in 1960) and returned to Somerville College to take a teaching position and then, in 1949, began a fellowship there. G.E.M. Anscombe had started a research fellowship at Somerville in 1946. Foot credits her introduction to analytic philosophy to Anscombe, who introduced Foot to a style of philosophy Anscombe picked up from Wittgenstein.