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G. E. M. Anscombe (1919—2001) or Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Ancombe was an Irish-British philosopher. She was associated with both Oxford and Cambridge and became a Chair of Philosophy at Cambridge in 1970. She met Wittgenstein at Cambridge. Wittgenstein selected her as one of the three literary executors of his estate. She translated his *Philosophical Investigations*. She is noted in ethics for her paper “Modern Moral Philosophy.”
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What did Anscombe dislike about "The Concept of Mind"?
In the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy it says
Anecdotal evidence (thanks to David Pears) is that Elizabeth Anscombe
was scathing about The Concept of Mind when it was published.
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Where to access the archives of philosophical journal "The human world"
In the 70-s there must have been a journal called "The human world", for I have seen it in citations. However, it's a tricky word to google and I have found zero information about this ...
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Is Anscombe saying that we seem unable to move from 'unreasonable' to 'wrong' because we lack a contemporary understanding of 'virtue'
She refers to "psychology", and not being able to do "philosophy", of contemporary "systems" which, she complains, allows people to commit "injustice".
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How did Wittgenstein "cure" Anscombe of phenomenalism?
In "Collected Philosophical Papers Volume 2: Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Mind", Elizabeth Anscombe wrote the following:
I always hated phenomenalism and felt trapped by it. I couldn’t ...
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Logical Notation in Anscombe's "Causality and Extensionality"
In "Causality and Extensionality," Anscombe writes thus:
Our argument uses the description of a class—say x̂(Gx · p), assuming G to be a respectable class-forming predicate. Let G be such that x̂(Gx) ...
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Did early Wittgenstein view mathematics as "sense-less" or "non-sensical"?
G. E. M Anscombe makes the following distinction between Wittgenstein's use of sense-less (sinnlos) and nonsense (unsinnig): (page 163)
We must distinguish in the theory of the Tractatus between ...
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Are there examples of necessity other than logical necessity?
G. E. M. Anscombe writes the following (page 80):
...[Wittgenstein's] view, expressed at 6.37, that 'there is only logical necessity', and at 5.525, that the possibility of a state of affairs is ...
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Where does Bertrand Russell discuss mysticism?
G. E. M. Anscombe writes in An Introduction to Wittgenstein's Tractatus (1971, St Augustine's Press) the following about Wittgenstein's use of the concept of mysticism: (page 170)
But Wittgenstein ...
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Did the analytic philosopher G.E.M. Anscombe write anything specifically on pornography?
An ardent traditional Catholic, she wrote a few things on sexual promiscuity, declaring that it diminishes the beauty of so-called legitimate sex, i.e., sex that takes place in marriage. But I am ...
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Where did Carnap express his disagreement with Wittgenstein's Tractatus?
I read the following in G. E. M. Anscombe's description of the consequences of Wittgenstein's picture theory of language: (page 82)
Carnap strongly objected to Wittgenstein's doctrine with its ...
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What was Wittgenstein's argument against Cantor's transfinite numbers and where did he make his objection?
G. E. M. Anscombe had this to say about propositions in Wittgenstein's Tractatus: (page 137)
It seems likely enough, indeed, that Wittgenstein objected to Cantor's result even at this date, and ...
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Is unhappiness a principle of utility for any moral philosopher?
G. E. M. Anscombe criticizes the following happiness principle of utility in Modern Moral Philosophy as an adequate judgement for moral behavior (midway, page 7 of the link):
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How do Anscombe and Wittgenstein view psychology?
G. E. M. Anscombe wrote this at the beginning of Modern Moral Philosophy where she claimed that one should not do moral philosophy today:
...that should be laid aside at any rate until we have an ...
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Which current moral philosophers take similar positions to those taken by Anscombe on moral obligation?
I would like to read current moral philosophers who take similar positions on moral obligation as those taken by G. E. M. Anscombe in Modern Moral Philosophy.
Her view, as I understand it, is that ...
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What were the main sophistical methods according to Plato?
In her paper Modern Moral Philosophy, G. E. M. Anscombe used the phrase "sophistical methods" and "his procedures are certainly sophistical" (page 3 of the linked file).
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Was Hume a sophist?
rs.29 wrote in an answer to a question about the is-ought problem the following:
...we could hold the is–ought problem only as a obsolete sophism, and not as a real problem.
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What is the difficulty with the concept of pleasure that Anscombe claims Ryle addressed?
In Modern Moral Philosophy G. E. M. Anscombe writes (page 2)
Bentham and Mill do not notice the difficulty of the concept of "pleasure".
She claimed the ancients found the concept of pleasure "...
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Seeking clarification of how an argument from Aristotle is found fallacious using Frege's quantification tools
G. E. M. Anscombe writes in An Introduction to Wittgenstein's Tractatus (page 15-16):
Again, the following fallacious piece of reasoning is found in Aristotle: 'All chains of means to ends must ...
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Thick Concepts versus Normative Concepts
In G. E. Anscombe's article "Modern Moral Philosophy", she thinks that it is meaningless to make moral judgements such as something is right, wrong, permissible and impermissible. Secondly, she thinks ...
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Why do some philosophers write in numbered paragraphs?
Hegel, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, and Anscombe all write mostly in numbered paragraphs. (Of course Hegel and Nietzsche have chapters. And many of Hegel's lectures aren't written in this way, but both ...
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What is the difference between a prediction and an expression of intention according to Anscombe?
I have been reading G.E.M Anscombe's book Intention and one of the key concepts is the difference between predictions and expressions of intention but I feel as though I am failing to grasp it ...
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