G. E. M. Anscombe

Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe widely known as G. E. M. Anscombe, was a prominent 20th-century British philosopher who explored the concepts of memory, intentionality, causality, ethics and time. She served as a professor at the University of Cambridge. During her first year at Oxford she embraced Catholicism, and later married Peter Geach, a fellow Catholic convert. Anscombe is best known for her book Metaphysics and the Philosophy of the Mind. At Oxfords Socratic Club, she presented a paper challenging C. S. Lewis's argument that naturalism was self-refuting (as presented is his book "Miracles"), for which some of Lewis's associates remarked that he lost a subsequent debate on the subject. G. E. M. Anscombe was a profound thinker who reflected deeply on human purpose and value as noted when she stated: “What people are for is, we believe, like guided missiles, to home in on God, God who is the one truth it is infinitely worth knowing ... We can't ever know that the time of possibility of gaining eternal life is over, however old, wretched, 'useless' someone has become.”