Del i serien Oxford Guides to Philosophy

Anscombe's Intention

A Guide

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

AvJohn Schwenkler

689 kr

Beställningsvara. Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar. Fri frakt för medlemmar vid köp för minst 249 kr.

Finns i fler format (1)

Inbunden

2 509 kr

Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar

Written against the background of her controversial opposition to the University of Oxford's awarding of an honorary degree to Harry S. Truman, Elizabeth Anscombe's Intention laid the groundwork she thought necessary for a proper ethical evaluation of actions like the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The devoutly Catholic Anscombe thought that these actions made Truman a murderer, and thus unworthy of the university's honor-but that this verdict depended on an understanding of intentional action that had been widely rejected in contemporary moral philosophy. Intention was her attempt to work out that understanding and argue for its superiority over a conception of intention as an inner mental state. Though recognized universally as one of the definitive works in analytic philosophy of action, Anscombe's book is often dismissed as unsystematic or obscure, and usually read through the lens of philosophical concerns very far from her own. Schwenkler's Guide offers a careful and critical presentation of Anscombe's main lines of argument at a level appropriate to advanced undergraduates but also capable of benefiting specialists in action theory, moral philosophy, and the history of analytic philosophy. Further, it situates Intention in a context that emphasizes Anscombe's debts to Aristotle, Aquinas, and Wittgenstein, and her engagement with the work of contemporaries like Gilbert Ryle and R.M. Hare, inviting new avenues of engagement with the ideas of historically important philosophers.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2019-11-19
Mått140 x 206 x 17 mm
Vikt839 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieOxford Guides to Philosophy
Antal sidor272
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780190052034

Tillhör följande kategorier

PrefaceAbbreviationsIntroduction: The Project of IntentionInterpretive PrécisOutline of the Text The Commentary1 Preliminaries1.1 The three headings (§1)1.2 Predictions and expressions of intention (§§2-3)1.3 Action first (§§3-4)1.4 Summary discussion 2 Beginnings of an Account2.1 'Why?'-questions (§5)2.2 The three epistemic conditions (§§6-8)2.3 Reason, motive, and cause (§§9-16)2.4 'For no reason' / 'I don't know why I did it' (§§17-18)2.5 Summary discussion 3 The Unity of Action3.1 An extra feature? (§19)3.2 Further intention (§§20-21)3.3 The A-D order (§§22-23, 26)3.4 Intention and foresight (§§24-25, 27)3.5 Summary discussion 4 Knowledge Without Observation4.1 Raising difficulties (§28)4.2 False avenues of escape (§§29-30)4.3 Beginning to sketch a solution (§§31-32)4.4 Summary discussion 5 Practical Reasoning5.1 A difference in form (§33)5.2 Calculation (§33-35)5.3 The role of 'wanting' (§§35-36)5.4 The guise of the good (§37-41)5.5 '... an order which is there ...' (§§42-43)5.6 Summary discussion 6 Practical Knowledge6.1 The Thomistic background6.2 'A form of description of events' (§§46-48)6.3 The cause of what it understands (§§44-45, 48)6.4 Doing without knowing?6.5 Practical knowledge through perception?6.6 Summary discussion 7 Concluding Discussion7.1 Intentional and voluntary (§49)7.2 Intention for the future (§§50-52) Glossary of TermsBibliography

Elizabeth Anscombe's Intention has emerged as one of the most influential texts of twentieth century analytic philosophy, despite the fact that its central arguments are notoriously difficult to understand. John Schwenkler has written an accessible and insightful commentary that will be invaluable for students and experts alike. Just as Anscombe's commentary on Wittgenstein's Tractatus aimed to rescue its legacy from its most influential supporters, so too Schwenkler's commentary clears away decades of empiricist misinterpretations and misappropriations, allowing readers to see Anscombe's masterwork with fresh eyes. It is a remarkable achievement, worthy of widespread attention.