A centenary celebration : Anscombe, Foot, Midgley, Murdoch
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A centenary celebration : Anscombe, Foot, Midgley, Murdoch
(Royal Institute of Philosophy supplement, 87)
Cambridge University Press, c2020
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This volume celebrates the centenary of the birth of Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley and Iris Murdoch. These four remarkable women were philosophical colleagues in Oxford in the 1940s, and their careers intertwined and overlapped henceforth. The papers in this book are all by prominent philosophers who spoke at the Royal Institute of Philosophy's annual lecture series from 2018-9. Together they cover the philosophical careers of Anscombe, Foot, Midgley and Murdoch, focusing on their thinking on morality, human nature and action and the place of humanity in the animal and natural world, all areas to which they made notable and distinctive contributions. Connexions are drawn to the thought of Wittgenstein, Aquinas and Aristotle. This book demonstrates the way these four philosophers 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.
Table 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.
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