Essays On Anscombe S Intention

Author : Anton Ford,Jennifer Hornsby,Frederick Stoutland
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674060913

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Essays on Anscombe’s Intention by Anton Ford,Jennifer Hornsby,Frederick Stoutland Pdf

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.

Author : G. E. M. Anscombe
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2000-10-16
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0674003993

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Intention by G. E. M. Anscombe Pdf

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.

Author : Margaret Anscombe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:603524537

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Intention and Intentionality by Margaret Anscombe Pdf

Author : Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UVA:X000069852

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Intention and Intentionality by Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe Pdf

Author : Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0855279850

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Intention and Intentionality by Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe Pdf

Author : G.E.M. Anscombe
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781845402709

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Human Life, Action and Ethics by G.E.M. Anscombe Pdf

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'

Author : John Schwenkler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190052041

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Anscombe's Intention by John Schwenkler Pdf

Written against the background of her controversial opposition to the University of Oxford's awarding of an honorary degree to Harry S. Truman, Elizabeth Anscombe's Intention laid the groundwork she thought necessary for a proper ethical evaluation of actions like the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The devoutly Catholic Anscombe thought that these actions made Truman a murderer, and thus unworthy of the university's honor-but that this verdict depended on an understanding of intentional action that had been widely rejected in contemporary moral philosophy. Intention was her attempt to work out that understanding and argue for its superiority over a conception of intention as an inner mental state. Though recognized universally as one of the definitive works in analytic philosophy of action, Anscombe's book is often dismissed as unsystematic or obscure, and usually read through the lens of philosophical concerns very far from her own. Schwenkler's Guide offers a careful and critical presentation of Anscombe's main lines of argument at a level appropriate to advanced undergraduates but also capable of benefiting specialists in action theory, moral philosophy, and the history of analytic philosophy. Further, it situates Intention in a context that emphasizes Anscombe's debts to Aristotle, Aquinas, and Wittgenstein, and her engagement with the work of contemporaries like Gilbert Ryle and R.M. Hare, inviting new avenues of engagement with the ideas of historically important philosophers.

Author : Anton Ford,Jennifer Hornsby,Frederick Stoutland
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674051027

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Essays on Anscombe’s Intention by Anton Ford,Jennifer Hornsby,Frederick Stoutland Pdf

G. E. M. Anscombe’s Intention firmly established the philosophy of action as a distinctive field of inquiry. Donald Davidson called it “the most important treatment of action since Aristotle.” This collection of ten essays clarifies many aspects of Anscombe’s challenging work and affirms her reputation as one of our most original philosophers.

Author : Rachael Wiseman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317309277

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Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Anscombe's Intention by Rachael Wiseman Pdf

G. E. M. Anscombe’s Intention is a classic of twentieth-century philosophy. The work has been enormously influential despite being a dense and largely misunderstood text. It is a standard reference point for anyone engaging with philosophy of action and philosophy of psychology. In this Routledge Philosophy GuideBook, Rachael Wiseman: situates Intention in relation to Anscombe’s moral philosophy and philosophy of mind considers the influence of Aquinas, Aristotle, Frege, and Wittgenstein on the method and content of Intention adopts a structure for assessing the text that shows how Anscombe unifies the three aspects of the concept of intention considers the influence and implications of the piece whilst distinguishing it from subsequent work in the philosophy of action Ideal for anyone wanting to understand and gain a perspective on Elizabeth Anscombe’s seminal work, this guide is an essential introduction, useful in the study of the philosophy of action, ethics, philosophy of psychology and related areas.

Author : G.E.M. Anscombe
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781845402822

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Faith in a Hard Ground by G.E.M. Anscombe Pdf

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.

Author : Roger Teichmann
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191616990

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The Philosophy of Elizabeth Anscombe by Roger Teichmann Pdf

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.

Author : Roger Teichmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2000-04-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521785103

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Logic, Cause and Action by Roger Teichmann Pdf

A collection of essays in honour of the distinguished philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe, first published in 2000.

Author : Donald Davidson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2001-09-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199246267

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Essays on Actions and Events by Donald Davidson Pdf

Donald Davidson has prepared a new edition of his classic 1980 collection of Essays on Actions and Events, including two additional essays.

Author : Sergio Tenenbaum
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780195382440

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Desire, Practical Reason, and the Good by Sergio Tenenbaum Pdf

The "Guise of the Good" thesis - the view that desire, intention, or action) always aims at the good - has received renewed attention in the last twenty years. The book brings together work on various issues related to this thesis both from contemporary and historical perspectives.

Author : Rachael Wiseman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317309284

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Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Anscombe’s Intention by Rachael Wiseman Pdf

G. E. M. Anscombe’s Intention is a classic of twentieth-century philosophy. The work has been enormously influential despite being a dense and largely misunderstood text. It is a standard reference point for anyone engaging with philosophy of action and philosophy of psychology. In this Routledge Philosophy GuideBook, Rachael Wiseman: situates Intention in relation to Anscombe’s moral philosophy and philosophy of mind considers the influence of Aquinas, Aristotle, Frege, and Wittgenstein on the method and content of Intention adopts a structure for assessing the text that shows how Anscombe unifies the three aspects of the concept of intention considers the influence and implications of the piece whilst distinguishing it from subsequent work in the philosophy of action Ideal for anyone wanting to understand and gain a perspective on Elizabeth Anscombe’s seminal work, this guide is an essential introduction, useful in the study of the philosophy of action, ethics, philosophy of psychology and related areas.