Written against the background of her controversial opposition to the University of Oxford\'s awarding of an honorary degree to Harry S.
He specializes in the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of action, ethics, epistemology, and the philosophy of cognitive science..
About the Author John Schwenkler is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Florida State University, where he has taught since 2013.
Hare, inviting new avenues of engagement with the ideas of historically important philosophers.
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.
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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.
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.
Intention was her attempt to work out that understanding and argue for its superiority over a conception of intention as an inner mental state.
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.
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.
Written against the background of her controversial opposition to the University of Oxford\'s awarding of an honorary degree to Harry S
