The Life and Philosophy of Elizabeth Anscombe

No initiative has made so significant a contribution to the posterity of Elizabeth Anscombe as the series ‘St Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs’. Besides four collections of essays by Anscombe, published between 2005 and 2015, it has issued two collections of essays by eminent philosophers on Anscombe. The first of these, published in 2016, concerned her writings on moral philosophy, and it is now followed by a complementary volume ‘more addressed’, according to John Haldane's preface, ‘to issues in mind and metaphysics’ (p. ix). It is worth noting that, of the fifteen essays that compose the volume, only Anselm Müller's had not appeared previously, Guy Rohrbaugh's having been published in Noûs (vol. 48 (4), 2014), Ulf Hlobil and Katharina Nieswandt's having been published in Klesis (vol. 35, 2016), and the remaining eleven in a special issue of the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly (90 (2), 2016). This helps to explain the existence of some degree of discrepancy between the volume's title and its contents, i.e., instead of covering the whole range of the philosophical interests Anscombe held throughout her life, it should be more addressed to two of her particular areas of interest, for such discrepancy is a natural result of the volume having come post res.

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