[1] She is considered an expert on the philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz on whom she has published many papers.
She was raised a Catholic and attended Sacred Heart High School where she won a scholarship.
She pursued graduate studies at the Sorbonne followed by a doctorate in philosophy at Somerville College, Oxford.
Anscombe and her doctoral thesis was supervised by Peter Strawson and Gilbert Ryle.
[4] She has suggested an interpretation of Leibniz's conceptual logic within the frame of possible world semantics.