From Plato to Wittgenstein : Essays by G. E. M. Anscombe
by Anscombe, G. E. M.; Geach, Mary; Gormally, LukeFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2011-10-30
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Summary
More treasures from the archive of papers left by philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe, edited by her daughter and son-in-law, philosophers Mary Geach and Luke Gormally.This volume collects a number of published and unpublished papers by Elizabeth Anscombe in which she engages with the thought of major philosophers of the past. Philosophers featured include Plato, Anselm, Aquinas, Descartes, Hume, Spinoza, and Wittgenstein.
Author Biography
G.E.M. Anscombe (1919-2001) read classics and philosophy at St Hugh's College, Oxford from 1937 to 1941 in which year she married the philosopher Peter Geach. She subsequently researched in philosophy at Newnham College, Cambridge where she became a student and friend of Ludwig Wittgenstein. One of his literary executors, she played a large part in editing his unpublished works and was their principal English translator. In 1946 she returned to Oxford and was appointed University Lecturer in 1951. From 1970 until her retirement in 1986 she held the Chair of Philosophy at Cambridge
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. xiii |
| Ancient, Medieval and Modern | |
| The origin of Plato's Theory of Forms | p. 1 |
| On Piety, or: Plato's Euthyphro | p. 11 |
| Plato, soul and 'the unity of apperception' | p. 25 |
| Why Anselm's Proof in the Proslogion is not an ontological argument | p. 35 |
| Russelm or Anselm? | p. 45 |
| Truth: Anselm or Thomas? | p. 51 |
| Truth: Anselm and Wittgenstein | p. 71 |
| Anselm and the unity of truth | p. 77 |
| How can a man be free? Spinoza's thought and that of some others | p. 83 |
| Hume on causality: introductory | p. 95 |
| Recent and Contemporary | |
| Frege, Wittgenstein and Platonism | p. 127 |
| On Russell's Theory of Descriptions | p. 137 |
| Ludwig Wittgenstein | p. 157 |
| The simplicity of the Tractates | p. 171 |
| Wittgenstein's 'two cuts' in the history of philosophy | p. 181 |
| On the form of Wittgenstein's writing | p. 187 |
| A Theory of Language? | p. 193 |
| Wittgenstein: Whose Philosopher? | p. 205 |
| Was Wittgenstein a conventionalist? | p. 217 |
| Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language | p. 231 |
| Index | p. 247 |
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