Women In Parenthesis Podcast Series 6: Mapping the Quartet Oxford Self-Guided Audio Walking Tour
Elizabeth Anscombe, Mary Midgley, Iris Murdoch, and Philippa Foot are four of the twentieth...
Read Moreby Rachel Bollen | Sep 6, 2022 | News | 0
Elizabeth Anscombe, Mary Midgley, Iris Murdoch, and Philippa Foot are four of the twentieth...
Read Moreby Rachael Wiseman | May 28, 2019 | Audio & video | 0
Jane Heal FBA and Dr Rachael Wiseman discuss highlights of Anscombe’s exceptional life,...
Read Moreby Rachael Wiseman | Mar 1, 2019 | Audio & video | 0
Rachael was at the Royal Instite of Philosophy, presenting her paper ‘Anscombe on Brute...
Read Moreby Rachael Wiseman | Oct 1, 2018 | News | 0
We are just back from an incredible trip to Philadelphia and the Collegium Institute and UPenn...
Read Moreby Rachael Wiseman | Aug 14, 2017 | Student blog | 0
Inspired by In Parenthesis, our own research group has spent our last few sessions examining some essays by Anscombe and Murdoch. I have found seeing these philosophers as part of a distinct school of thought very helpful to...
Read Moreby Clare Mac Cumhaill | Aug 11, 2017 | Student blog | 0
During the Easter holidays, I was lucky enough to visit the Newnham College Archives. After...
Read Moreby Samuel Cooper | Jul 14, 2017 | Writing | 0
Sam Cooper discusses the content of a letter sent by Anscombe to Foot, discussing Aquinas’ views on charity and justice. This post concerns the ‘practical problem’.
Read Moreby Samuel Cooper | Jul 14, 2017 | Writing | 0
Sam Cooper discusses the content of a letter sent by Anscombe to Foot, discussing Aquinas’ views on charity and justice. This post concerns the ‘abstract problem’.
Read Moreby Samuel Cooper | Jul 14, 2017 | Writing | 0
Both Foot and Anscombe talk about Aquinas quite often, and both of them seem to take it for granted that Aquinas’ thought can be elucidated by thinking about it from directions provided by Wittgenstein; not just that Aquinas can be corrected or improved by the addition of a Wittgensteinian perspective, but rather that what Aquinas himself actually thought can be elucidated by looking at his work from such an angle. Both of them do this quite often, sometimes implicitly and sometimes explicit, but almost always very casually, as if it is quite obvious that this is how it should be. But in what sense in Aquinas Wittgensteinian?!
Read Moreby Rachael Wiseman | Jun 19, 2017 | Audio & video, Writing | 0
Clare and Rachael gave this talk for the Sheffield ‘Women in the History of Philosophy’ lecture, 2017. Listen or read.
Read Moreby Rachael Wiseman | Jun 3, 2017 | Lifelines | 0
G. E. M. Anscombe was born in 1919 and studied Classics at St Hugh’s College, Oxford (1936-41). After graduating, Anscombe held a studentship at Newnham College, Cambridge (1942-5), before returning to Oxford for a...
Read Moreby Luna Dolezal | Apr 20, 2016 | News | 0
Rachael Wiseman’s book on Elizabeth Anscombe’s Intention has been recently published by Routledge in their Philosophy Guidebook series. “This book is clearly, beautifully and thoroughly organized. The content...
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