From Plato to Wittgenstein

In 2005 St Andrews Studies published a volume of essays by Anscombe entitled Human Life, Action and Ethics, followed in 2008 by a second with the title Faith in a Hard Ground. Both books were highly praised. This third volume brings essays on the thought of historical philosophers in which Anscombe engages directly with their ideas and arguments. Many are published here for the first time and the collection provides further testimony to Anscombe’s insight and intellectual imagination.

Keywords: philosophy, Plato, platonism, Wittgenstein, Anselm, Aquinas, Frege, Hume, Russell, Spinoza, truth, causality, freedom, ontological argument, Euthyphro, Proslogion, Tractatus, language