Logic, Cause and Action

Elizabeth Anscombe is among the most distinguished and original philosophers alive today. Her work has ranged over many areas of philosophy, including metaphysics, ethics, the philosophy of mind and action, and the philosophy of religion. In each of these areas she has made seminal contributions. The essays in this book reflect the breadth of her interests and the esteem in which she is held by her colleagues. The distinguished contributors include Michael Dunnett, Nancy Cartwright, Peter Geach and Philippa Foot; and Professor Anscombe’s essay ‘Making True’ is published here for the first time.

• Elizabeth Anscombe is one of the most original philosophers alive today • Contains an essay of hers published for the first time in this volume

1. Making true Elizabeth Anscombe; 2. Sentences and propositions Michael Dummett; 3. The first person: problems of sense and reference Edward Harcourt; 4. An empiricist defence of singular causes Nancy Cartwright; 5. Causality and derivativeness Stephen Makin; 6. Intention, freedom and predictability Peter Geach; 7. Intention Rosalind Hursthouse; 8. Does moral subjectivism rest on a mistake? Philippa Foot; 9. Ethics and psychology Roger Teichmann; 10. Just war Nicholas Denyer.