Format:
xiv, 312 pages
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21 cm
ISBN:
9781788360043
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1788360036
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9781788360036
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1788360044
Series Statement:
St Andrews studies in philosophy and public affairs
Content:
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.
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Language:
English
Keywords:
Anscombe, G. E. M. 1919-2001
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Philosophie
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Aufsatzsammlung
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