Ideas of G.E.M. Anscombe, by Theme
[British, 1919 - 2001, Elizabeth Anscombe. Friend of Wittgenstein. Married to Peter Geach. Taught at both Oxford and Cambridge]
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15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 5. Qualia / b. Qualia and intentionality
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The qualities involved in sensations are entirely intentional [Armstrong]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 3. Constraints on the will
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Freedom involves acting according to an idea
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 6. Determinism / a. Determinism
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To believe in determinism, one must believe in a system which determines events
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20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 1. Intention to Act / a. Nature of intentions
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Intentional actions are those which are explained by giving the reason for so acting
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23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / e. Character
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It would be better to point to failings of character, than to moral wrongness of actions
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23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 1. Deontology
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'Ought' and 'right' are survivals from earlier ethics, and should be jettisoned
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Between Aristotle and us, a Judaeo-Christian legal conception of ethics was developed
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 5. Direction of causation
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With diseases we easily trace a cause from an effect, but we cannot predict effects
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 6. Causation as primitive
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The word 'cause' is an abstraction from a group of causal terms in a language (scrape, push..)
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / b. Causal relata
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Causation is relative to how we describe the primary relata [Schaffer,J]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / c. Conditions of causation
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Since Mill causation has usually been explained by necessary and sufficient conditions
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