Centenary Celebration: Volume 87 - Anscombe, Foot, Midgley, Murdoch

This volume celebrates the centenary of the birth of Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley and Iris Murdoch.

List of contents

Preface Anthony O'Hear; 1. The women are up to something Benjamin J. B. Lipscomb; 2. A philosopher of singular style and multiple modes John Haldane; 3. Revisiting Modern Moral Philosophy Jennifer A. Frey; 4. Anscombe on brute facts and human affairs Rachael Wiseman; 5. Aristotelian Necessity Candace Vogler; 6. Volunteers and conscripts: Philippa Foot and the amoralist Nakul Krishna; 7. Virtues as perfections of human powers: on the metaphysics of goodness in Aristotelian naturalism John Hacker-Wright; 8. Depicting human form Clare Mac Cumhaill; 9. Love and unselfing in Iris Murdoch Julia Driver; 10. The elusiveness of the ethical: from Murdoch to Diamond Sabina Lovibond; 11. Iris Murdoch and common sense or, what is it like to be a woman in philosophy Hannah Marije Altorf; 12. Philosophical plumbing in the twenty-first century Liz McKinnell; 13. Relationality in the thought of Mary Midgley Gregory S. McElwain; 14. 'Removing the barriers': Mary Midgley on concern for animals David E. Cooper; 15. Evolution as a religion: Mary Midgley's hopes and fears Anthony O'Hear.

Summary

This volume celebrates the centenary of the birth of Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley and Iris Murdoch, demonstrating the ways they individually and collectively changed the direction of philosophy in the English speaking world in the mid-twentieth-century and how they continue to influence it one hundred years after their birth.

Product details

• Authors: Anthony (Royal Institute of Philosophy O''''hear
• Assisted by: Anthony O'Hear (Editor), Anthony (Royal Institute of Philosophy O'Hear (Editor), O'Hear Anthony (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9781108928274
• ISBN: 978-1-108-92827-4
• No. of pages: 290
• Series: Royal Institute of Philosophy; Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Western philosophy from c 1800, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -