Anscombe's philosophy of action and its origins

Abstract

G. E. M. Anscombe's work is seminal to action theory. Her major work in this area, Intention, first published in 1957, has been very influential in shaping the modern debate on issues such as the nature of action, the status of folk psychology, the relation between reasons and causes and so on. Yet to my mind no major scholarly analysis of her philosophy of action has been thus far undertaken.