Anscombe’s Intention: A Guide – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780190052027,0190052023, 9780190052058, 0190052058

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• ISBN-10: 0190052058
• ISBN-13: 9780190052058
• Author: John Schwenkler

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.

Table contents:

1 Preliminaries

2 Beginnings of an Account

3 The Unity of Action

4 Knowledge without Observation

5 Practical Reasoning

6 Practical Knowledge

7 Concluding Discussion

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