G. E. M. Anscombe

Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe ; 18 March 1919 – 5 January 2001, commonly cited as G. E. M. Anscombe or Elizabeth Anscombe, was the British analytic philosopher. She wrote on the philosophy of mind, philosophy of action, philosophical logic, philosophy of language, as well as ethics. She was a prominent figure of analytical Thomism, a Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford in addition to Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge.

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Views of her work

The philosopher Candace Vogler says that Anscombe's "strength" is that "'when she is writing for [a] Catholic audience, she presumes they share certain essential beliefs,' but she is equally willing to write for people who do not share her assumptions." In 2010, philosopher Roger Scruton wrote that Anscombe was "perhaps the last great philosopher writing in English". Mary Warnock target her as "the undoubted giant among women philosophers" while John Haldane said she "certainly has a improvement claim to be the greatest woman philosopher of whom we know".