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List of works
Anscombe, G.E.M. (1981) Collected Philosophical Papers, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 3 vols.
Anscombe, G.E.M. (1957a) Intention, Oxford: Blackwell; 2nd edn, 1963.
Anscombe, G.E.M. (1957b) ‘Mr. Truman’s Degree’, privately published pamphlet; repr. in G.E.M. Anscombe (1981), vol. 3, 62–71.
Anscombe, G.E.M. (1958) ‘Modern Moral Philosophy’, Philosophy 33; repr. in G.E.M. Anscombe (1981), vol. 3, 26–42.
(Counselling a revival of ancient forms of ethical theory especially that of Aristotle; defines and attacks ‘consequentialism’.)
Anscombe, G.E.M. (1959) An Introduction to Wittgenstein’s ‘Tractatus’, Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press; 2nd edn, 1971.
(An introduction to some aspects of the teachings of Frege, Russell and the early Wittgenstein.)
Anscombe, G.E.M. and Geach, P. (1961) Three Philosophers, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
(The first essay, an interpretation of Aristotle’s doctrine of substance, is by Anscombe.)
Anscombe, G.E.M. (1963) ‘The Two Kinds of Error in Action’, Journal of Philosophy 60: 393–401; repr. in G.E.M. Anscombe (1981), vol. 3, 3–9.
Anscombe, G.E.M. (1965a) ‘The Intentionality of Sensation’, in R.J. Butler (ed.) Analytical Philosophy, 2nd series, New York: Barnes & Noble, 143–158; repr. in G.E.M. Anscombe (1981), vol. 2, 3–20.
Anscombe, G.E.M. (1965b) ‘Thought and Action in Aristotle’, in R. Bambrough (ed.) New Essays on Plato and Aristotle, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 158–180; repr. in G.E.M. Anscombe (1981), vol. 1, 66–80.
(An interpretation and critique of Aristotle’s conception of deliberation.)
Anscombe, G.E.M. (1971) ‘Causality and Determination’, inaugural lecture, Cambridge University; repr. in G.E.M. Anscombe (1981), vol. 2, 133–147.
Anscombe, G.E.M. (1974) ‘The First Person’, in S. Guttenplan (ed.) Mind and Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 45–65; repr. in G.E.M. Anscombe (1981), vol. 2, 21–36.
Anscombe, G.E.M. (1978) ‘Rules, Rights and Promises’, Midwest Studies in Philosophy 3: 318–323; repr. in G.E.M. Anscombe (1981), vol. 3, 97–106.
Anscombe, G.E.M. (1979) ‘Under a Description’, Nous 13: 219–233; repr. in G.E.M. Anscombe (1981), vol. 2, 208–219.
(A response to critics of Intention, which clarifies some of its teachings.)
Anscombe, G.E.M. (1982a) ‘Action, Intention and Double Effect’, Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 56: 12–25.
(A defence, from a modern point of view, of some aspects of the moral philosophy of Thomas Aquinas.)
Anscombe, G.E.M. (1982b) ‘Murder and the Morality of Euthanasia’, in Euthanasia: A Clinical Perspective, London: Linacre Centre, 23–36; repr. in L. Gormally (ed.) Euthanasia, Clinical Practice and the Law, Indianapolis, IN: Hackett, 1994, 37–50.
Anscombe, G.E.M. (1989) ‘Von Wright on Practical Reason’, in L. Hahn and P. Schilpp (eds) The Philosophy of Georg Heinrik von Wright, La Salle, IL: Open Court, 376–404; repr. in R. Hursthouse, G. Lawrence and W. Quinn (eds) Virtues and Reasons, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995, 1–34.
(An important revision of the doctrine of Intention concerning practical reason.)
References and further reading
Bennett, J. (1966) ‘Whatever the Consequences’, Analysis 26: 83–102.
Davidson, D. (1963) ‘Actions, Reasons and Causes’, Journal of Philosophy 60: 685–700; repr. in D. Davidson (1980), 83–102.
(An influential attack on the notion, apparently present in Anscombe’s Intention, that the reason why an action was performed is in no sense a cause of it.)
Davidson, D. (1978) ‘Intending’, in Y. Yovel (ed.) Philosophy of History and Action, Dordrecht: Reidel, 41–60; repr. in D. Davidson (1980), 83–102.
(Attacking Anscombe’s methodological claim in Intention that the notion of intentional action should be treated in advance of that of intention.)
Davidson, D. (1980) Essays on Actions and Events, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Diamond, C. and Teichmann, J. (1979) Intention and Intentionality, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
Foot, P. (1967) ‘Abortion and the Doctrine of Double Effect’, Oxford Review 5: 5–15; repr. in P. Foot, Virtues and Vices, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1978, 5–15.
(An attack, friendlier than that of Bennett (1966), on Anscombe’s ‘absolutism’; Foot’s method of relating abstract principles to her picturesque examples was of great influence in later moral philosophy.)
Thompson, Michael. Bibliography. Anscombe, Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret (1919–2001), 1998, doi:10.4324/9780415249126-DD081-1. Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Taylor and Francis, https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/biographical/anscombe-gertrude-elizabeth-margaret-1919-2001/v-1/bibliography/anscombe-gertrude-elizabeth-margaret-1919-2001-bib.
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