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The Oxford handbook of Elizabeth Anscombe
\"Elizabeth Anscombe was one of the most important and original philosophers of the twentieth century, as well as being a friend, pupil a student, and the main translator of Ludwig Wittgenstein. She wrote on a wide range of philosophical topics, publishing a handful of books and a large corpus of articles in her lifetime. This collection of twenty-two essays on the philosophy of Elizabeth Anscombe by an international array of experts in the field covers intention, ethical theory, human life, the first person, and Anscombe on other philosophers. It will be essential reading for anyone interested in Anscombe's work and in the philosophical problems which she wrote about\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Logos and Life
The essays in Logos and Life , the earliest written in 2001 but mainly dating from 2014 and later, cover topics in philosophy of mind, philosophy of action, ethics and philosophy of language. There are discussions of the voluntary and the involuntary; reasons for action; the idea of an ‘inner state’; pleasure; the nature of ethics; justice; necessity and possibility; and a number of other topics. Numerous strands connect these four areas, which Roger Teichmann highlights: in this sense the collection exhibits thematic unity as well as diversity.
Several of the essays take as their starting points the ideas and philosophical methods of Wittgenstein and of Elizabeth Anscombe, and so will be of interest to anyone studying those philosophers. Anscombe was a friend and pupil of Wittgenstein, and Teichmann was fortunate enough to be a friend and pupil of Anscombe. He is now a leading authority on her philosophy.
A newly written Introduction serves to indicate the main themes and arguments of the book, and provide an overall statement of Teichmann’s philosophy.
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The Life and Philosophy of Elizabeth Anscombe
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.).
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Reading Wittgenstein with Anscombe, going on to ethics
\"Reading Wittgenstein with Anscombe, Going On To Ethics is a collection of seven essays, divided into three parts. The essays bring out connections between Wittgenstein's thinking and questions of continuing interest in the philosophy of language, logic, and ethics. A dialogue with Anscombe runs through the essays, which take up questions about how we should respond to thinking that has miscarried or gone off the rails. The main issues discussed in this book concern how we are to understand thoughts, forms of words, and uses of language that seem crucially important to our understanding or self-understanding, but cannot fit in the template we instinctively bring to bear on questions about how language and thought are related to reality. The book presents Wittgenstein as a responsive philosopher, and it does this through a continuing dialogue with Anscombe\"-- Provided by publisher
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Essays on Anscombe's Intention
G. E. M. Anscombe's Intention, firmly established the philosophy of action as a distinctive field of inquiry. Donald Davidson called this 94-page book \"the most important treatment of action since Aristotle.\" But until quite recently, few scholars recognized the magnitude of Anscombe's philosophical achievement. This collection of ten essays elucidates some of the more challenging aspects of Anscombe's work and affirms her reputation as one of our most original philosophers.
Born in 1919, Anscombe studied at St. Hugh's College, Oxford, where she later held a research fellowship. In 1941 she married philosopher Peter Geach, with whom she had seven children. A close friend of Wittgenstein, in 1946 she joined Oxford's Somerville College and spent the next twenty-four years there before being appointed to the Chair of Philosophy at Cambridge that Wittgenstein had held. She died in 2001 after her long career as a highly regarded analytic philosopher.
This volume brings together fresh interpretations of Intention written by some of today's leading philosophers of action. It will enlighten Anscombe's readers who struggle with concepts they find puzzling or obscure, while providing a bracing corrective to doubts about Intention's significance and the gravity of what is at stake.
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Metaphysical animals : how four women brought philosophy back to life
\"A vibrant portrait of four college friends-Iris Murdoch, Philippa Foot, Elizabeth Anscombe, and Mary Midgley-who formed a new philosophical tradition while Oxford's men were away at war\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Anscombe's moral philosophy
G.E.M.Anscombe (1919-2001) was one of the most important, outspoken, and misunderstood philosophers of the twentieth century.More than anyone else she revived virtue ethics and the philosophy of action.She was also almost alone in publicly opposing Oxford University's decision to award an honorary degree to President Truman.
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Doy razones: \yo\ como operador anafórico 1
El presente artículo expone una redescripción de la primera persona gramatical en términos de su funcionamiento lógico-pragmático: qué -acción- cuenta como práctica lingüística de enunciación de \"yo\" como operación anafórica. Para conseguir este propósito, se utiliza la noción de anáfora como vínculo inferencial con estructuras suboracionales substituibles, y estas a su vez con estructuras proposicionales articuladas inferencialmente. Además, se cuenta con la noción de juegos de lenguaje y formas de vida -Lebensformen- en tanto adiestramiento para la práctica de dicho jugador. En este sentido, se sigue plenamente la estructura que Robert Brandom desarrolla en Hacerlo explícito. En definitiva, el enunciante de \"yo\" debe articular los contenidos conceptuales que se adscribe de manera anafórica para que se establezca un entramado coherente de compromisos deónticos.
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Judgment Takes Care of Itself
Aesthetic judgment does not require defense, because moral judgment saturates our language and our experience. In the first part of this essay, I look at the writings of Iris Murdoch, Stanley Cavell, and G. E. M. Anscombe to show how judgments shape our most intimate dealings with the world. In the second part, I examine a strong instance of practical criticism: the writings of Clement Greenberg on Impressionism and Henri Matisse. Greenberg’s Kantian attempt to separate aesthetic judgment from moral judgment breaks down in practice, a testimony to the depth of his engagement with art and the ubiquity of moral judgment.
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