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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Anscombe"”.
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The Historical And Contemporary Significance of Anscombe and Foot's Metaethical Thought
In this dissertation, I argue that Anscombe and Foot’s metaethical thought was not onlysignificant for the history of metaethics in the twentieth-century, but continues to be significant for contemporary thought. In Part One, I argue that the historical significance of Anscombe and Foot’s …
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An Examination Of Wanting In Anscombe's Intention
In intention, G.E.M. Anscombe sets out to examine the standard ways in which we use the word "intention". To this end, she also examines desire and how desires play a role in our intentions. In the process, she divides desire into two distinct categories, those of weak and strong wanting. This …
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The ‘Ought’ of Flourishing in Elizabeth Anscombe’s ‘Modern Moral Philosophy’ and Philippa Foot’s Natural Goodness
Elizabeth Anscombe embarked on arguably one of her first forays into moral philosophy in a landmark article, published in 1958 at age thirty-nine, entitled ‘Modern Moral Philosophy’. The work can be read as the writing of a devout Catholic seeking (sceptically), for those with no religion, a …
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The Ethics of Care of the Self as Resistance to a “Peculiar Institution”
… and virtue ethics) posed by Elizabeth Anscombe, Michael Stocker, Bernard Williams, and Susan Wolf. It focuses on Stocker’s challenge that when subjects try to act on such theories they become self-effacing in that they create a divide between one’s reasons and one’s motives. This study …
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The theory and application of transformation in statistics
… by later writers, notably Curtiss (1943) and Anscombe (1948). Another important transformation discussed is one which refers to an analysis of observations on to a logarithmic scale, and here there are uses in analysis of variance situations and theoretical problems in the field of estimation: …
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A new conceptual framework for the evaluation of L&D programmes
… Forecasting, Armstrong (2001) and ‘Intention’ Anscombe (1959). This study adds to the literature by highlighting opportunities from that synthesis for further research and for practice. The researcher is a specialist and experienced evaluator of L&D programmes and functions with access to a …
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Action, Motive, and Self-Knowledge—An Inquiry into the Uncertain Agent
… it is a widespread assumption from Descartes to Anscombe that we stand in a special relation to the reasons behind our actions which precludes uncertainty. On the other hand, contemporary empirical approaches often follow Nietzsche in adopting a sceptical outlook and portray the mind as so …
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Properties of two modified moment estimators for parameters of the negative binomial distribution
… is used. In particular, the form proposed by Anscombe [Biometrika, 37 (1950), pp. 358-382), with parameters λ and α, has received wide attention and was selected for study in this investigation. In Anscombe's parametric form, the mean of the NBD is λ and the variance is λ + λ²/α. While the …
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An Intellectual History of Roger Scruton's Thought
… éducation sentimental in the likes of G. E. M. Anscombe, Stuart Hampshire, or Bernard Williams. The second context, that of the ‘Peterhouse Right’, illuminates the distinctiveness of Scruton’s wielding of this virtue ethicist use of Wittgenstein into a political thought concerned with stores of …
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Orthogonal statistics and some sampling properties of moment estimators for the negative binomial distribution
… forms considered in depth were due to Anscombe [Biometrika, 37 (1950}, pp. 358-362] with parameters λ and α, Evans [Biometrika, 40 (1953), pp. 186-211] with parameters m and a, and Fisher [Annals of Eugenics, 11 (1941), pp. 182-187] with parameters p and k. The purpose of this study was …
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Action, intention and knowledge
I deliver an account of ‘practical knowledge’; the knowledge we have of our own intentional actions. Part One introduces the target notion by describing three philosophically interesting features it appears to have (Ch. 1) and dismisses two broad approaches to understanding it – a …
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[Title missing] : on the metaphysics and ethics of omissions.
In this dissertation, I argue for a general analysis of omissions and then apply that analysis to an issue in medical ethics. One omits when they don't act in a particular way, can act in that way, the action was required for some further activity, and one is already (in some sense) engaged in that …