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G. E. M. Anscombe

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Birth date	18 March 1919
Place of birth	Limerick, Ireland
Date of death	5 January 2001 (aged 81)
Death place	Cambridge
Resting place	Ascension Parish Burial Ground, Cambridge
Nationality	British
Education	MA (classics)
Alma mater	St Hugh's College, Oxford
Occupation	Professor of philosophy, University of Cambridge (1970 - 1986)
Known for	Philosophy of action, Philosophy of mind, Philosophical logic Consequentialism, Brute facts, "Under a description,"Direction of fit
Influenced by	Thomas Aquinas Ludwig Wittgenstein
Influenced	Philippa Foot Michael Dummett Donald Davidson Cora Diamond R. Hursthouse Paul Feyerabend Jenny Teichman Candace Vogler John Searle Anthony Kenny Peter Geach Hector Zagal
Religion	Roman Catholicism
Spouse	Peter Geach
Parents	Alan Wells Anscombe and Gertrude Elizabeth Anscombe

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G. E. M. Anscombe (18 March, 1919 - 5 January, 2001), born Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe, but better known as Elizabeth Anscombe, was a British analytic philosopher. A student of Ludwig Wittgenstein, she became an authority on his work and edited and translated many books drawn from his writings, above all his Philosophical Investigations. She wrote on the philosophy of mind, philosophy of action, philosophical logic, philosophy of language, and ethics. Anscombe's 1958 article "Modern Moral Philosophy" introduced the term "consequentialism" into the language of analytic philosophy; it had a seminal influence on contemporary virtue ethics, as did some of her subsequent articles. Her monograph Intention is generally recognized as her greatest and most influential work, and the continuing philosophical interest in the concepts of intention, action and practical reasoning can be said to have taken its main impetus from this work.

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Catholic News Agency---...- my colleagues was having a wild affair with a political philosophy professor, while the other smoked cigars in the style of the brilliant -GEM Anscombe-. ... - Date : Wed, 22 Sep 2010 05:01:04 GMT+00:00

The Dallas Institute Names 2010 Recipient of $50000 Hiett Prize in the Humanities - dBusinessNews Dallas (press release)

dBusinessNews Dallas (press release)---...- West Rock Avenue in New Haven, Connecticut; a cultural study of Scientology; and a biography of English philosopher and just-war theorist -GEM Anscombe-. ... - Date : Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:16:48 GMT+00:00

Intention :
She is X'ing intentionally	intentional action
She is X'ing with the intention of doing Y or ... She is X'ing in order to Y	intention with which or further intention in acting
She intends to Y or... She has expressed the intention to do Y	expression of intention for the future; (what Davidson later called a pure intending)

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