The Philosophy of Elizabeth Anscombe

The Philosophy of Elizabeth Anscombe
Author: Roger Teichmann
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2011-04-07
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0191616990

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One of the most important philosophers of recent times, Elizabeth Anscombe wrote books and articles on a wide range of topics, including the ground-breaking monograph Intention. Her work is original, challenging, often difficult, always insightful; but it has frequently been misunderstood, and its overall significance is still not fully appreciated. This book is the first major study of Anscombe's philosophical oeuvre. In it, Roger Teichmann presents Anscombe's main ideas, bringing out their interconnections, elaborating and discussing their implications, pointing out objections and difficulties, and aiming to give a unified overview of her philosophy. Many of Anscombe's arguments are relevant to contemporary debates, as Teichmann shows, and on a number of topics what Anscombe has to say constitutes a powerful alternative to dominant or popular views. Among the writings discussed are Intention, 'Practical Inference', 'Modern Moral Philosophy', 'Rules, Rights and Promises', 'On Brute Facts', 'The First Person', 'The Intentionality of Sensation', 'Causality and Determination', An Introduction to Wittgenstein's Tractatus, 'The Question of Linguistic Idealism', and a number of other pieces, including some that are little known or hard to obtain. A complete bibliography of Anscombe's writings is also included. Ranging from the philosophy of action, through ethics, to philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and the philosophy of logic and language, this book is a study of one of the most significant bodies of work in modern philosophy, spanning more than fifty years, and as pertinent today as ever.

Modern Moral Philosophy

Modern Moral Philosophy
Author: Anthony O'Hear
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2004-11-18
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0521603269

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Collection of original essays by leading researchers on current approaches to moral philosophy.

The Moral Philosophy of Elizabeth Anscombe

The Moral Philosophy of Elizabeth Anscombe
Author: Luke Gormally
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2016-03-17
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1845409035

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Elizabeth Anscombe's 1958 essay ‘Modern Moral Philosophy' contributed to the transformation of the subject from the late 1960s, reversing the trend to assume that there is no intrinsic connection between facts, values, and reasons for action; and directing attention towards the category of virtues. Her later ethical writings were focused on particular ideas and issues such as those of conscience, double-effect, murder, and sexual ethics. In this collection of new essays deriving from a conference held in Oxford these and other aspects of her moral philosophy are examined. Anyone interested in Anscombe’s work all want to read this volume.

Human Life, Action and Ethics

Human Life, Action and Ethics
Author: G.E.M. Anscombe
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2011-11-18
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1845402707

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A collection of essays by the celebrated philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe. This collection includes papers on human nature and practical philosophy, together with the classic 'Modern Moral Philosophy'

Ethics after Anscombe

Ethics after Anscombe
Author: D.J. Richter
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2000
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780792360933

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The outstanding features of this book are that it directly confronts the challenge posed by G.E.M. Anscombe in Modern Moral Philosophy of how moral philosophy can be done, it makes a significant contribution to the debate on virtue theory and anti-theory in ethics, and it shows the relevance of such theoretical discussion by grounding it in, and applying it to, contemporary moral issues such as abortion, suicide, and the moral status of animals. No other book currently available covers this ground. The book is aimed primarily at upper-level undergraduates, graduate students and faculty in philosophy, but it should be accessible to anyone with an interest in practical ethics or the philosophy of Wittgenstein.

No Morality, No Self

No Morality, No Self
Author: James Doyle
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2018-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0674976509

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Elizabeth Anscombe’s “Modern Moral Philosophy” and “The First Person” have become touchstones of analytic philosophy but their significance remains controversial or misunderstood. James Doyle offers a fresh interpretation of Anscombe’s theses about ethical reasoning and individual identity that reconciles seemingly incompatible points of view.

Intention

Intention
Author: G. E. M. Anscombe
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 110
Release: 2000-10-16
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780674003996

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Intention is one of the masterworks of twentieth-century philosophy in English. First published in 1957, it has acquired the status of a modern philosophical classic. The book attempts to show in detail that the natural and widely accepted picture of what we mean by an intention gives rise to insoluble problems and must be abandoned. This is a welcome reprint of a book that continues to grow in importance.

The Life and Philosophy of Elizabeth Anscombe

The Life and Philosophy of Elizabeth Anscombe
Author: John Haldane
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
Total Pages: 413
Release: 2019-06-13
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1788360125

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This volume in the St Andrews series contains a collection of essays from leading authors regarding the work of Elizabeth Anscombe, in particular issues in mind and metaphysics, and can be considered a partner work to 2016's The Moral Philosophy of Elizabeth Anscombe (also published by Imprint Academic Ltd.).

The Women Are Up to Something

The Women Are Up to Something
Author: Benjamin J. Bruxvoort Lipscomb
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2021
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0197541070

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Résumé éditeur : This book tells two intertwined stories, centered on twentieth-century moral philosophers Elizabeth Anscombe, Mary Midgley, Philippa Foot, and Iris Murdoch. The first is the story of four friends who came up to Oxford together just before WWII. It is the story of their lives, loves, and intellectual preoccupations; it is a story about women trying to find a place in a man's world of academic philosophy. The second story is about these friends' shared philosophical project and their unintentional creation of a school of thought that challenged the dominant way of doing ethics. That dominant school of thought envisioned the world as empty, value-free matter, on which humans impose meaning. This outlook treated statements such as “this is good” as mere expressions of feeling or preference, reflecting no objective standards. It emphasized human freedom and demanded an unflinching recognition of the value-free world. The four friends diagnosed this moral philosophy as an impoverishing intellectual fad. This style of thought, they believed, obscured the realities of human nature and left people without the resources to make difficult moral choices or to confront evil. As an alternative, the women proposed a naturalistic ethics, reviving a line of thought running through Plato, Aristotle, and Aquinas, and enriched by modern biologists like Jane Goodall and Charles Darwin. The women proposed that there are, in fact, moral truths, based in facts about the distinctive nature of the human animal and what that animal needs to thrive."

Faith in a Hard Ground

Faith in a Hard Ground
Author: G.E.M. Anscombe
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2017-04-11
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1845402820

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Elizabeth Anscombe's forthright philosophy speaks directly to many religious and ethical issues of current concern.This collection of her essays forms a companion volume to the critically acclaimed Human Life, Action and Ethics, published in 2005.