Life and Philosophy of Elizabeth Anscombe

John Haldane

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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.).

Sujets

• Philosophie et théologie
• Philosophy
• Philosophy of mind

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• Publié par: Andrews UK
• Date de parution: 13 juin 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 2
• EAN13: 9781788360128
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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The Life and Philosophy of Elizabeth Anscombe
Edited by
John Haldane

St Andrews
Studies in
Philosophy and
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Preface
John Haldane
The publication of this book is part of a project begun over fifteen years ago with the preparation for a volume of Anscombe’s essays on action and ethics edited by Mary Geach and Luke Gormally. That appeared in 2005 under the title Human Life, Action and Ethics , since when Geach and Gormally have edited three further volumes of writings by Anscombe: Faith in a Hard Ground (2009), From Plato to Wittgenstein (2011) and Logic, Truth and Meaning (2015). It has been my privilege to work with Luke Gormally on the process of selecting and preparing material and a special benefit to have had each volume introduced by a short essay by Mary Geach. With the original project completed it then seemed apt to include in the same general series of books two partner collections of essays on aspects of Anscombe’s work. The first of those, The Moral Philosophy of Elizabeth Anscombe (2016), was concerned mostly with themes from Human Life, Action and Ethics , while the present volume is more addressed to issues in mind and metaphysics. Details of these and of writings by and about Elizabeth Anscombe appear in the bibliography below.
Eleven of the following fifteen essays (chapters 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14 and 15) appeared previously in a special issue of the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly (vol. 90 (2) 2016) but with the permission of that journal and of the authors they are made available again here. There are in addition two other previously published essays:
U. Hlobil and K. Nieswandt, ‘On Anscombe’s Philosophical Method’, Klesis , 35, 2016 and G. Rohrbaugh, ‘Anscombe, Zygotes and Coming-to-be’, Noûs 48 (4) 2014.
I am grateful to the editors and publishers of these journals for granting permission to reprint these items. I am also grateful for assistance in the preparation and production of this volume to Adam and Sarah Myers, Benjamin Rusch, and Graham Horswell.



G.E .M. Anscombe Bibliography
A. Books Intention (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1957; 2nd edition, 1963); (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000). An Introduction to Wittgenstein’s Tractatus (London: Hutchinson, 1959; 4th revised edition, 1971); corrected text appears as part of Logic, Truth and Meaning: Writings by G.E.M. Anscombe (see below). [With Peter Geach] Three Philosophers: Aristotle, Aquinas, Frege (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1973).
B. Translations L. Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations (Oxford: Blackwell, 1953). [With Peter Geach] Descartes: Philosophical Writings (Edinburgh: Nelson, 1954). L. Wittgenstein, Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics (Oxford: Blackwell, 1956). L. Wittgenstein, Notebooks 1914–1916 (Oxford: Blackwell, 1961). L. Wittgenstein, Zettel (Oxford: Blackwell, 1967). [With Dennis Paul] L. Wittgenstein, On Certainty (Oxford: Blackwell, 1967).
C. Pamphlets [With Norman Daniel] The Justice of the Present War Examined: A Criticism Based on Traditional Catholic Principles and on Natural Reason (Glasgow: John S. Burns, 1939); Part I: Anscombe, ‘The War and the Moral Law.’ Mr Truman’s Degree (Oxford: Oxonian Press, 1956). On Transubstantiation (London: Catholic Truth Society, 1974). Contraception and Chastity (London: Catholic Truth Society, 1977). Causality and Determination: An Inaugural Lecture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971).
D. Collections of Essays From Parmenides to Wittgenstein: The Collected Papers of G.E.M. Anscombe Volume 1 (Oxford: Blackwell, 1981). Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Mind: The Collected Papers of G.E.M. Anscombe Volume 2 (Oxford: Blackwell, 1981). Ethics, Religion and Politics: The Collected Philosophical Papers of G.E.M. Anscombe Volume 3 (Oxford: Blackwell, 1981). Human Life, Action and Ethics: Essays by G.E.M. Anscombe , ed. Mary Geach and Luke Gormally. St. Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs (Exeter: Imprint Academic, 2005). Faith in a Hard Ground: Essays on Religion, Philosophy and Ethics , ed. Mary Geach and Luke Gormally. St. Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs (Exeter: Imprint Academic, 2009). From Plato to Wittgenstein: Essays by G.E.M. Anscombe , ed. Mary Geach and Luke Gormally. St. Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs (Exeter: Imprint Academic, 2011). Logic, Truth and Meaning: Writings by G.E.M. Anscombe , ed. Mary Geach and Luke Gormally. St. Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs (Exeter: Imprint Academic, 2015).
E. Secondary Studies
Monographs C. Diamond, Reading Wittgenstein with Anscombe, Going On to Ethics (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019). J. Doyle, No Morality, No Self: Anscombe’s Radical Scepticism (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018). P. Rayappan, Intention in Action: The Philosophy of G.E.M. Anscombe (Bern: Peter Lang, 2010). D. Richter, Anscombe’s Moral Philosophy (Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2010). R. Teichmann, The Philosophy of Elizabeth Anscombe (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008). R. Wiseman, Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Anscombe’s Intention (London: Routledge, 2016).
Collections of Essays V. Aucouturier, ed., Lectures contemporaines de Elisabeth Anscombe (Contemporary Essays on Anscombe), Klēsis 35, 2016. C. Diamond and J. Teichman, eds., Intention and intentionality: Essays in Honour of G. E.M. Anscombe (Brighton: Harvester, 1980). A. Ford, J. Hornsby and F. Stoutland, eds., Essays on Anscombe’s Intention (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011). L. Gormally, ed., Moral Truth and Moral Tradition: Essays in Honour of Peter Geach and Elizabeth Anscombe (Dublin: Four Courts Press