Title
Essays on Anscombe's ‹i›Intention‹/i› / ed. by Jennifer Hornsby, Anton Ford, Frederick Stoutland.
ISBN
9780674060913
Published
Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, [2011]
Copyright
©2011
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (324 p.)
Item Number
10.4159/harvard.9780674060913 doi
Call Number
B1618.A573 ǂb I5834 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
128/.4
Summary
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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Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
Introduction: Anscombe's Intention in Context
Summary of Anscombe's Intention
1. Anscombe on Expression of Intention: An Exegesis
2. Action and Generality
3. Actions in Their Circumstances
4. Anscombe on Bodily Self- Knowledge
5. "The Knowledge That a Man Has of His Intentional Actions"
6. Knowledge of Intention
7. Anscombe's Intention and Practical Knowledge
8. Two Forms of Practical Knowledge and Their Unity
9. Backward-Looking Rationality and the Unity of Practical Reason
10. An Anscombian Approach to Collective Action
Contributors
Index to Anscombe's Intention
Index