Volume 27, Number 3
May 2024
ARTICLE

Elizabeth Anscombe on Murder

Volume 27, Number 3, May 2024, Pages 552–576
https://doi.org/10.26556/jesp.v27i3.3346
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Abstract

The topic of murder was among Elizabeth Anscombe’s central preoccupations. Drawing on both her published writings and newly available archival resources, this paper reconstructs Anscombe’s theory of murder. I show that Anscombe was concerned to deny the semantic thesis that ‘murder’ means ‘killing that is unjustified or impermissible’ and I show how her theory surmounts three challenges that seem to support the semantic thesis. In doing so, I discuss her views on responsibility, the significance of the distinction between intention and foresight, and the concept of a title to kill.
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