Anscombe was a student of Ludwig Wittgenstein and became an authority on his work and edited and translated many books drawn from his writings, above all his Philosophical Investigations.

Elizabeth Anscombe, or Miss Anscombe as she was known, was an important twentieth century philosopher and one of the most important women philosophers of all time.

Jul 21, 2009 · Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century.

Anscombe was elected Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge University in 1970, where she served until her retirement in 1986. Anscombe was known for her outspokenness and often …

May 20, 2022 · Anscombe says there is one solution if we do not want to accept God as the basis of morality and do what God commands. We can return to the earlier way of thinking about …

Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe, 1919 – 2001 CE, usually cited as G. E. M. Anscombe or Elizabeth Anscombe, was a British philosopher. She wrote on the philosophy of mind, action, …

Always controversial but always brilliant, Anscombe led a prodigiously productive philosophical career and, as the wife of fellow philosopher Peter Geach, was the mother of seven.

G. E. M. Anscombe, English philosopher, was educated at Sydenham High School and St. Hugh's College, Oxford, where she read Literae Humaniores (Greats). She went as a research …

Elizabeth Anscombe was one of the leading philosophers of the 20th century, and arguably the foremost female philosopher in recorded history. Her writing touched on most areas of …

Oct 14, 2022 · Elizabeth Anscombe was extremely influential in various other areas of metaphysics, epistemology and the philosophy of language. However, if one of her …