Intention
Intention
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Published:
15 November, 2000
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780674003996 |
| ISBN10 | 0674003993 |
| Number Of Pages | 106 |
| Item Weight | 181 g |
| Product Dimensions | 152 x 229 x 8 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Harvard University Press |
| Format | paperback |
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Anscombe's classic work is the font from which all subsequent philosophical thought about agency flows. -- Robert B. Brandom, University of Pittsburgh
What Anscombe has done is to cut through a whole mess of philosophical clichés, and to give us a fresh, detailed picture of the concept of an action, and of related notions such as that of a reason for acting—and this in a way which brings out clearly the sources of a host of philosophical muddles in which one can find oneself in dealing with these concepts. To have done that is to have made a significant contribution to philosophy. -- Judith Jarvis Thomson * Journal of Philosophy *
Anscombe's Intention is the most important treatment of action since Aristotle. -- Donald Davidson, University of California, Berkeley
Intention opened for philosophical exploration a territory of thought, and laid out the swamps and thickets capable of trapping unwary philosophers. It is still an indispensable guide. -- Cora Diamond, University of Virginia
Anscombe's fusion of the Aristotelian and analytical traditions is one of the highest peaks of 20th century philosophy; it has lost none of its power to destroy philosophical complacency and excite new philosophical thought. -- Michael Thompson, University of Pittsburgh
Often quoted, sometimes read, rarely understood, Anscombe's Intention is nevertheless the defining moment in 20th-century philosophy of action. -- J. David Velleman, University of Michigan
Intention is a classic of modern philosophical psychology. It is unashamedly Wittgensteinian in organization and style--and Wittgensteinian too in its breaking of new ground and unerring sense of a new question, an unnoticed connection, an unexamined assumption. The freshness and intensity of the writing remain most impressive. -- Crispin Wright, University of St. Andrews
Elizabeth Anscombe's Intention is an extraordinary work: with penetrating acumen, delightfully dry wit, and not a single wasted breath, over the course of less than a hundred pages, it manages to make signal contributions to the philosophy of action, mind, and language, to moral philosophy, and to the interpretation of Aristotle and Wittgenstein. -- James Conant
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Author's Bio
G. E. M. Anscombe was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge.