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Ralph McInerny

2 articles 1999–2001

Ralph McInerny was a philosopher, novelist, and professor at the University of Notre Dame, where he directed the Jacques Maritain Center. He was widely known for his Father Dowling mystery series and his extensive writings on Thomistic philosophy. He contributed essays to The Weekly Standard on topics including philosophy and conservative intellectual life.

Elizabeth Anscombe

January 29, 2001 · Ralph McInerny, Magazine, Books and Arts

On January 5, the British philosopher G. E. M. Anscombe died in England at the age of eighty-one. Elizabeth Anscombe, as she was known, was a leading member of what, in retrospect, proves to have been a marvelous regiment of women -- the antidote to the antic male irrationality of twentieth-century…