Report to the Mary Somerville Fellowship Committee, May 1948 1

This chapter is Anscombe’s report to the Mary Somerville Fellowship Committee in May 1948. Between 1947 and 1952, Elizabeth Anscombe was Mary Somerville Research Fellow at the Oxford University college of that name. She took this position after a four year spell at Cambridge during which she met and studied under Wittgenstein, while continuing work toward her Oxford DPhil with Fredrich Waismann. While being a Mary Somerville Research Fellow, Anscombe filed an annual report on her work. This report was submitted in the May of the second year of her fellowship.