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.

ISBN 0674051025   Pages 324 ISBN13 9780674051027 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 544 Publisher Harvard University Press   Published in Cambridge, Mass Imprint Harvard University Press   Height (mm) 235 Format Hardback   Width (mm) 155 Publication date 03 Jun 2011   Spine width (mm) 27 DEWEY 128.4   Academic level Postgraduate DEWEY edition DC22

This volume begins with a superbly crafted introduction by Frederick Stoutland to Anscombe's work generally and to Intention in particular, furnishing a historical situating of the work that brings much clarity to otherwise difficult passages...This is indispensable reading for specialists in the philosophy of action and for others working in related areas in the philosophy of mind.--J. C. Swindal"Choice" (04/01/2012)

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