Research Catalog

Title

The life and philosophy of Elizabeth Anscombe / edited by John Haldane.

Publication

• Exeter, England : Imprint Academic, 2019.
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

Haldane, John

Description

xiv, 312 pages; 21 cm.

Summary

This collection brings together biographical portraits, personal reminiscences and philosophical studies of Anscombe's thought. It complements a previous volume in the series, The Moral Philosophy of Elizabeth Anscombe, by dealing more with philosophical methodology, philosophy of mind and action, intentionality and language, and the metaphysics of human beings, as well as biography. These two books together with four earlier volumes of Anscombe's own writings: Human Life, Action and Ethics, Faith in a Hard Ground, From Plato to Wittgenstein and Logic, Truth and Meaning, provide considerable resources for those interested in the work of one of the major philosophers of the twentieth century. Wherein lies her greatness? Among the elements composing this were her intellectual commitment, stamina and toughness. Of themselves these do not make for brilliance, but without them there tends only to be, at best, unsustained cleverness. In addition she had tremendous powers of analysis and argument. She also had a "nose" for fakes and mistakes, not the superficial yet pervasive sort that characterize the work of most philosophers in any period, but the deeper kind that give rise to ways of thinking that seem inescapable until the error and the escape routes are pointed out. -- Back cover.

Series Statement

St Andrews studies in philosophy and public affairs

Uniform Title

St. Andrews studies in philosophy and public affairs.

Subject

• Anscombe, G. E. M
• Ethics
• Ethics > Philosophy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Elizabeth Anscombe : life and work / John Haldane -- Elizabeth Anscombe at Oxford / Anthony Kenny -- Anscombe, Cambridge and the challenges of Wittgenstein / Arthur Gibson -- On Anscombe's philosophical method / Ulf Hlobil, Katharina Nieswandt -- Anscombe on human immateriality, spirituality and dignity / John Finnis -- Anscombe and Geach on mind and soul / John Haldane -- Anscombe, zygotes and coming-to-be / Guy Rohrbaugh -- Anscombe and the metaphysics of human action / John Zeis -- The intended and unintended consequences of Intention / Rachael Wiseman -- Nothing added : Intention §§19 & 20 / Candace Vogler -- Anscombe, Thomson and double effect / T.A. Cavanaugh -- Anscombe and practical truth in Aristotle / Sarah Broadie -- Truth as eternal norm : Anscombe on Anselm's De Veritate / Anselm Winfried Müller -- Asymmetries in thinking about thought : Anscombe and Wiggins / Cora Diamond -- The identity of a word / Roger Teichmann.

Call Number

JFE 19-8121

ISBN

• 1788360036
• 9781788360036
• 1788360044
• 9781788360043

OCLC

1078429495

Title

The life and philosophy of Elizabeth Anscombe / edited by John Haldane.

Publisher

Exeter, England : Imprint Academic, 2019.

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

St Andrews studies in philosophy and public affairs

St. Andrews studies in philosophy and public affairs.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Haldane, John, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 19-8121