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1 online resource (273 pages) |
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Oxford Guides to Philosophy Ser |
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Oxford guides to philosophy.
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Cover; Series Page; Anscombe's Intention; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction:The Project of Intention; Interpretive Précis; Outline of the Text; The Commentary; 1 Preliminaries; 1.1 The three headings (1); 1.2 Predictions and expressions of intention (2-3); 1.3 Action first (3-4); 1.4 Summary discussion; 2 Beginnings of an Account; 2.1 "Why?"-questions (5); 2.2 The three epistemic conditions (6-8); 2.3 Reason, motive, and cause (9-16); 2.4 "For no reason" / "I don't know why I did it" (17-18); 2.5 Summary discussion |
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3 The Unity of Action3.1 An extra feature? (19); 3.2 Further intention (20-21); 3.3 The A-D order (22-23, 26); 3.4 Intention and foresight (24-25, 27); 3.5 Summary discussion; 4 KnowledgewithoutObservation; 4.1 Raising difficulties (28); 4.2 False avenues of escape (29-30); 4.3 Beginning to sketch a solution (31-32); 4.4 Summary discussion; 5 Practical Reasoning; 5.1 A difference in form (33); 5.2 Calculation (33-35); 5.3 The role of "wanting" (35-36); 5.4 The guise of the good (37-41); 5.5 ". . . an order which is there . . ." (42-43); 5.6 Summary discussion |
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6 Practical Knowledge6.1 TheThomistic background; 6.2 "A form of description of events" (46-48); 6.3 The cause of what it understands (44-45, 48); 6.4 Doing without knowing?; 6.5 Practical knowledge through perception?; 6.6 Summary discussion; 7 Concluding Discussion; 7.1 Intentional and voluntary (49); 7.2 Intention for the future (50-52); Glossary of Terms; Bibliography; Concordance; Index |
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This book is a guide to Elizabeth Anscombe's Intention, which is one of the most important philosophical books of the 20th Century. The present work offers a careful and critical presentation of Anscombe's main lines of argument and emphasizes her debts to Aristotle, Aquinas, and Wittgenstein, and her engagement with the work of then-contemporary authors including Gilbert Ryle and R.M. Hare |
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Print version record |
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Anscombe, G. E. M. (Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret). Intention
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Intention (Logic)
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Intention (Logic)
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Electronic book
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9780190052041 |
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019005204X |
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