Primary Literature

When abbreviations are used to cite Anscombe’s works in the text, the abbreviation begins the bibliographic item below.

Anscombe’s monographs include the following:

• [IWT] An Introduction to Wittgenstein’s Tractatus, London: Hutchinson, 1959; 2nd edition, 1963; 3rd edition, 1971. (Scholar)
• [INT] Intention, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1957; 2nd edition, 1963. Reprinted in 2000 by Harvard University Press.
• [THP] Three Philosophers: Aristotle, Aquinas, Frege, with Peter Geach, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 2002.

Anscombe’s principal essays are collected in the following six volumes.

• [FPW] From Parmenides to Wittgenstein (The Collected Philosophical Papers of G. E. M. Anscombe, Volume 1), Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1981.
• [MPM] Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Mind (The Collected Philosophical Papers of G. E. M. Anscombe, Volume 2), Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1981.
• [ERP] Ethics, Religion and Politics (The Collected Philosophical Papers of G. E. M. Anscombe, Volume 3), Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1981.
• [HAE] Human Life, Action, and Ethics: Essays by G. E. M. Anscombe (St. Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs, Volume IV), M. Geach and L. Gormally (eds.), Exeter: Imprint Academic, 2005.
• [FPW] From Plato to Wittgenstein: Essays by G. E. M. Anscombe, M. Geach and L. Gormally (eds.), Exeter: Imprint Academic, 2015.
• [LTM] Logic, Truth and Meaning: Writings by G. E. M. Anscombe, M. Geach and L. Gormally (eds.), Exeter: Imprint Academic, 2015.

Individual essays by Anscombe cited in the text, with page numbers referring to the reprinted version contained in the above collected volumes:

• [MTD] “Mr. Truman’s Degree” (privately produced pamphlet); reprinted in [MPM], 62–71. (Scholar)
• [WAM] “War and Murder,” in Nuclear Weapons: a Catholic Response, Walter Stein (ed.), London: Merlin, 1961, 43–62; reprinted in [ERP], 51–61. (Scholar)
• [SAS] “On the Source of the Authority of the State,” Ratio 20 (1978); reprinted in [MPM], 130–155. (Scholar)
• [MMP] “Modern Moral Philosophy,” Philosophy 33 (1958): 1–19; reprinted in [ERP], 26–42. [CAD] Causality and Determination: An Inaugural Lecture, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971; reprinted in [MPM], 133–147. (Scholar)
• [TFP] “The First Person,” in Mind and Language: Wolfson College Lectures 1974, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975, 45–64; reprinted in [MPM], 21–36. (Scholar)
• [IOS] “The Immortality of the Soul” in [FHG], 69–83; previously unpublished. [CSL] “A Reply to Mr. C.S. Lewis’s Argument that ‘Naturalism’ is Self-Refuting,” Socratic Digest 4:2 (1948), 7–16; reprinted in [MPM], 224–232. (Scholar)
• [CAC] “Contraception and Chastity,” The Human World 9 (1972): 41–51; reprinted in [FHG], 170–192. (Scholar)
• [IOS] “The Intentionality of Sensation: A Grammatical Feature,” Analytical Philosophy (second series), R. J. Butler (ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1965; reprinted in [MPM], 3–20. (Scholar)
• [HJC] “Hume and Julius Caesar,” Analysis 34 (1973): 1–7; reprinted in [FPW], 86–93. (Scholar)
• [WBS] “What Is It to Believe Someone?” in Rationality and Religious Belief, C. F. Delaney (ed.), Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1979, 141–151; reprinted in [FHG], 1–10. (Scholar)
• [AIM] “Authority in Morals” in Problems of Authority, J. Todd (ed.), London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 1962; reprinted in [ERP], 43–50. (Scholar)

Translations by Anscombe

Major translations by Anscombe include:

• Descartes, René, Philosophical Writings, translated by G. E. M. Anscombe and Peter Geach, London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1954.
• Wittgenstein, Ludwig, Philosophical Investigations, translated by G. E. M. Anscombe, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1953.
• –––, Notebooks 1914–1916, translated by G. E. M. Anscombe, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1961.
• –––, On Certainty, translated by Denis Paul and G. E. M. Anscombe and edited by G. H. von Wright and G. E. M. Anscombe, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1969.
• –––, Remarks on the Foundation of Mathematics, translated by G. E. M. Anscombe and edited by G. H. von Wright and R. Rhees, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1956.
• –––, Zettel, translated by G. E. M. Anscombe, Oxford: Blackwell, 1967.

Secondary Literature

• Bennett, Jonathan, 1966. “Whatever the Consequences,” Analysis, 26: 83–102. (Scholar)
• –––, 1995. The Act Itself, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Boyle, Joseph, 1980. “Toward Understanding the Principle of Double Effect,” Ethics, 90: 527–538. (Scholar)
• Bratman, Michael, 1987. Intention, Plans, and Practical Reason, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• Coady, C. A. J., 1995. Testimony: A Philosophical Study, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Crisp, Roger and Michael Slote, 1996. Introduction to Virtue Ethics, Roger Crisp and Michael Slote (eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Crisp, Roger, 2004. “Does Modern Moral Philosophy Rest on a Mistake?,” in Modern Moral Philosophy (Royal Institute of Philosophy, Supplement 54), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 75–94. (Scholar)
• Davidson, Donald, 1963. “Actions, Reasons, and Causes,” Journal of Philosophy, 60: 685–700. (Scholar)
• Diamond, Cora, 2019. Reading Wittgenstein with Anscombe, Going on to Ethics, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• ––– and Jenny Teichman (eds), 1979. Intention and Intentionality: Essays in Honour of G. E. M. Anscombe, Harvester Press. (Scholar)
• Doyle, James, 2017. No Morality, No Self: Anscombe’s Radical Skepticism, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• Ford, Anton, 2015. “The Arithmetic of Intention,” American Philosophical Quarterly, 52: 129–143. (Scholar)
• –––, Jennifer Hornsby, and Frederick Stoutland (eds.), 2011. Essays on Anscombe’s Intention, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• Foot, Philippa, 2002. Virtues and Vices: And Other Essays in Moral Philosophy, Oxford, Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Frey, Christopher & Frey, Jennifer A, 2017. “G. E. M. Anscombe on the Analogical Unity of Intention in Perception and Action,” Analytic Philosophy 58, 3: 202–247. (Scholar)
• Frey, Jennifer A., 2019. “Anscombe on Practical Knowledge and the Good,” Ergo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy, 6. (Scholar)
• Frost, Kim, 2014. “On the Very Idea of Direction of Fit,” The Philosophical Review 123: 429–484. (Scholar)
• Geach, Peter, 1957. “On Belief About Oneself,” Analysis 18: 23–24. (Scholar)
• –––, 2006. “The Labels,” Analysis, 66: 266–67. (Scholar)
• Gormally, Luke, David Albert Jones, and Roger Teichmann (eds.), 2016. The Moral Philosophy of Elizabeth Anscombe. Imprint Academic. (Scholar)
• Haldane, John, 2000. “In Memoriam, G. E. M. Anscombe (1919–2001),” The Review of Metaphysics, 53: 1019–1021. (Scholar)
• ––– (ed.), 2019. The Life and Philosophy of Elizabeth Anscombe. Imprint Academic. (Scholar)
• Hlobil, Ulf & Nieswandt, Katharina, 2016. “On Anscombe’s Philosophical Method,” Klēsis Revue Philosophique 35: 180–198. (Scholar)
• Hursthouse, Rosalind, 2000. “Intention” in Logic, Cause and Action: Essays in Honour of Elizabeth Anscombe, ed. Teichmann, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 83–105. (Scholar)
• Lavin, Douglas, 2015. “Action as a form of temporal unity: on Anscombe’s Intention,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 45:609–629. (Scholar)
• Lewis, C. S., 1960. Miracles: A Preliminary Study, 2nd edition. London, Fontana. (Scholar)
• Lewis, David, 1979. “Attitudes de dicto and de se,” Philosophical Review 88: 513–543. (Scholar)
• Mac Cumhaill, Clare & Wiseman, Rachael, 2022. Metaphysical Animals, New York: Doubleday. (Scholar)
• Mackie, J. L., 1977. Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong, Harmondsworth: Penguin. (Scholar)
• Monk, Ray, 1991. Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius, London: Vintage. (Scholar)
• Moran, Richard & Stone, Martin J., 2011. “Anscombe on expression of intention: an exegesis” in Essays on Anscombe’s Intention, eds. Anton Ford, Jennifer Hornsby & Frederick Stoutland, Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• Murdoch, Iris, 1971. The Sovereignty of Good. Routledge. (Scholar)
• Nagel, Thomas, 1979. “War and Massacre,” in Mortal Questions, New York: Cambridge University Press, 53–74. (Scholar)
• O’Brien, Lucy, 1994. “Anscombe and the Self-Reference Rule,” Analysis 54: 277–281. (Scholar)
• Passmore, John, 1966. A Hundred Years of Philosophy, 2nd edition, New York: Basic Books. (Scholar)
• Rödl, Sebastian, 2007. Self-Consciousness, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• Schwenkler, John, 2019. Anscombe’s Intention: A Guide. New York, USA: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Searle, John R., 1975. “A Taxonomy of Illocutionary Acts,” In Language, Mind and Knowledge, ed. K. Gunderson, University of Minnesota Press, 344–369. (Scholar)
• Teichman, Jenny, 2002. “Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe: 1919–2001,” in Biographical Memoirs of Fellows I (Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 115), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 31–50. (Scholar)
• Teichmann, Roger (ed.), 2000. Logic, Cause and Action: Essays in Honour of Elizabeth Anscombe, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2008. The Philosophy of Elizabeth Anscombe, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Thompson, Michael, 2011. “Anscombe’s Intention and practical knowledge,” in Essays on Anscombe’s Intention, eds. Anton Ford, Jennifer Hornsby & Frederick Stoutland, Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• Vogler, Candace, 2006. “Modern Moral Philosophy Again: Isolating the Promulgation Problem,” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 106: 347–364. (Scholar)
• –––, 2016. “Nothing Added: Intention §§19 and 20,” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 90: 229–247. (Scholar)
• Williams, Bernard, 1985. Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• ––– and Michael Tanner, 1972. “Comment on Contraception and Chastity,” The Human World, 9: 41–51. (Scholar)
• Wilson, George, 1989. The Intentionality of Human Action, Stanford: Stanford University Press. (Scholar)
• Wiseman, Rachael, 2016. Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Anscombe’s Intention. Routledge. (Scholar)
• Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1980. Philosophical Remarks, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)