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Anscombe and Geach on Mind and the Soul

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Date
04/05/2016
Author
Haldane, John Joseph
Keywords
Anscombe
B Philosophy (General)
Philosophy
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Abstract
Anscombe and Geach were among the most interesting philosophers to have come out of Oxford in the twentieth century. Even before they encountered Wittgenstein, they had begun to distinguish themselves from their contemporaries, and in the course of their work they moved between highly abstract and often technical issues, and themes familiar to non-academics, the latter aptly illustrated by the title of Geach’s first collection of essays, God and the Soul, and by that of Anscombe’s analysis of human sexual acts, “Contraception and Chastity.”1 I consider their early work together and illustrate its influence on later writings by each. I then examine the ideas and arguments advanced in those writings in so far as they bear upon the issue of materialism and the question of the existence and nature of the soul. Finally, I respond to their somewhat skeptical arguments, though I conclude that there is also reason to acknowledge the propriety of what I will term “spiritual agnosticism.”
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Haldane , J J 2016 , ' Anscombe and Geach on Mind and the Soul ' American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly , vol. 90 , no. 2 , pp. 369-394 . DOI: 10.5840/acpq20165387
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American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly
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Non peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.5840/acpq20165387
ISSN
1051-3558
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Journal article
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Copyright 2016 American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly. This work is made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://dx.doi.org/10.5840/acpq20165387
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/9238

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