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The Somerville Quartet | The Point Magazine

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In the late Nineties I was an undergraduate studying philosophy, one of the only women majors in a department filled with young men eager to prove themselves to the professors, the vast majority of whom were also men.

In the late Nineties I was an undergraduate studying philosophy, one of the only women majors in a department filled with young men eager to prove themselves to the professors, the vast majority of whom were also men. In a seminar on self-consciousness, we were assigned an impenetrable essay, which our professor had described as first-rate. Titled “The First Person,” its author was G. E. M. Anscombe. I recognized the name from the cover of my worn-out copy of Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations , which Anscombe translated, and I vaguely remembered passing references to her in the final

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