Duncan Richter

Interested in

Iris Murdoch, Philippa Foot, Elizabeth Anscombe, Mary Midgley

Academic

Profile


I work mostly on Wittgenstein (I studied with DZ Phillips in Swansea and Cora Diamond at the University of Virginia), but also Anscombe and ethics generally. So all four members of the quartet are interesting to me, but especially Anscombe and Murdoch. 

Publications


Anscombe’s Moral Philosophy, Lexington Books, Lanham, Maryland, 2011. Translated into Spanish and published as La Filosofía Moral de Anscombe by the University of Veracruz, Mexico in 2015
 
Ethics After Anscombe: Post "Modern Moral Philosophy", Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Netherlands and Boston, Mass., 2000

“A Portrait of Elizabeth Anscombe,” pp. 37-52 in The Creation of Wittgenstein: Understanding the Roles of Rush Rhees, Elizabeth Anscombe and Georg Henrik von Wright edited by Thomas Wallgren, Bloomsbury, 2023. 
  
“Anscombe and Sexual Ethics,” pp. 324-343 in Roger Teichmann (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Elizabeth Anscombe, Oxford University Press, 2022. 
 
“Morality and Moral Law: A Reply to James Doyle,” in Forma de Vida, No. 17, 2019 https://formadevida.org/#editorialfdv17

“The Meaning of Human Dignity” pp. 17-39 in John Mizzoni (ed.) G.E.M. Anscombe and Human Dignity Neumann University Press, 2016
  
“The Conception of the Architectonic Good in Anscombe’s Moral Philosophy” pp. 33-50 in Luke Gormally, David Albert Jones and Roger Teichmann (eds) The Moral Philosophy of Elizabeth Anscombe Imprint Academic, 2016.
 
“G.E.M. Anscombe” Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy March 26, 2012

"The Incoherence of the Moral ‘Ought’," Philosophy 70, January 1995 

Location

Lexington, Virginia, United States of America


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