G.E.M. Anscombe

Elizabeth Anscombe
Anscombe as a young woman
Born	(1919-03-18)18 March 1919 Limerick, Ireland
Died	5 January 2001(2001-01-05) (aged 81) Cambridge, England
Nationality	British
Education	Sydenham High School
Alma mater	St Hugh's College, Oxford Newnham College, Cambridge
Spouse(s)	Peter Geach
Era	20th-century
Region	Western philosophy
School	Analytic philosophy
Institutions	Newnham College, Cambridge Somerville College, Oxford
Notable ideas	Brute facts, "under a description", direction of fit
Influences Ludwig Wittgenstein, Peter Geach, Thomas Aquinas
Influenced Michael Dummett,Anthony Kenny, Thomas Nagel, Roger Scruton, Donald Davidson, Charles Taylor, John Searle, Philippa Foot, Iris Murdoch

Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe, FBA (/ˈænskoʊm/; 18 March 1919 – 5 January 2001), usually cited as G. E. M. Anscombe or Elizabeth Anscombe, was a British analytic philosopher. She wrote on the philosophy of mind, philosophy of action, philosophical logic, philosophy of language, and ethics. She was a prominent figure of analytical Thomism.

Anscombe was a student of Ludwig Wittgenstein and became an authority on his work and edited and translated many books drawn from his writings, above all his Philosophical Investigations. Anscombe's 1958 article "Modern Moral Philosophy" introduced the term "consequentialism" into the language of analytic philosophy, and had a seminal influence on contemporary virtue ethics. Her monograph Intention is generally recognised as her greatest and most influential work, and the continuing philosophical interest in the concepts of intention, action and practical reasoning can be said to have taken its main impetus from this work.