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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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  Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe was born 18 March 1919 and studied under Ludwig Wittgenstein at Cambridge, becoming the foremost authority on his work—she edited and translated Philosophical Investigations and much of what followed. A fellow at Somerville College, Oxford, and later a professor at Cambridge, she worked across philosophy of mind, action, language, logic, and ethics, anchoring her thought in analytical Thomism. In 1957 she published Intention, a monograph Donald Davidson called "the most important treatment of action since Aristotle" and now considered foundational to contemporary philosophy of action and practical reason. A year later her essay "Modern Moral Philosophy" introduced consequentialism into analytic vocabulary and set the terms for the revival of virtue ethics. She died 5 January 2001, leaving the field reordered in her wake.