The Oxford handbook of Elizabeth Anscombe / edited by Roger Teichmann.

9780190887384

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2022.

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Elizabeth Anscombe was one of the most important and original philosophers of the twentieth century, as well as being a friend, 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.

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October 20, 2022

Contents: Title Abbreviations - List of Contributors - Introduction - Roger Teichmann - Part I:Intention - 1. On Anscombe on Practical Knowledge and Practical Truth - Lucy Campbell - 2. Intention in Action - Charles F. Capps - 3. Intention, Knowledge, and Responsibility - Rémi Clot-Goudard - 4. Practical Knowledge and Testimony - Johannes Roessler - Part II:Ethical Theory - 5. Anscombe's Three Theses after Sixty Years: Modern Moral Philosophy, Polemic, and 'Modern Moral Philosophy' - Sophie Grace Chappell - 6. Practical Truth, Ethical Naturalism, and the Constitution of Agency in Anscombe's Ethics - John Hacker-Wright - 7. Criterialism - Gavin Lawrence - 8. Anscombe on Double Effect and Intended Consequences - Cyrille Michon - 9. Anscombe on Ought - Anselm Winfried Müller - Part III:Human Life - 10. Justice and Murder: The Backstory to Anscombe's 'Modern Moral Philosophy' - John Berkman - 11. Anscombe on Euthanasia as Murder - David Albert Jones - 12. The Knowledge of Human Dignity - Micah Lott - 13. Life and Other Basic Rights in Anscombe - Katharina Nieswandt - 14. Anscombe and Sexual Ethics - Duncan Richter - 15. Linguistic Idealism and Human Essence - Rachael Wiseman - Part IV:The First Person - 16. The First Person, Self-Consciousness, and Action - Valérie Aucouturier - 17. Anscombe and Self-Consciousness - Adrian Haddock - 18. The First Person and 'The First Person' - Harold Noonan - Part V:Anscombe on/and Other Philosophers - 19. Anscombe's Wittgenstein - Joel Backström - 20. Anscombe and Aquinas - John Haldane - 21. Ethics and Action Theory: An Unhappy Divorce - Constantine Sandis - 22. Anscombe and Wittgenstein on Knowledge 'without Observation' - Harold Teichman - Index