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P. F. Strawson
Sir Peter Frederick Strawson (November 23,1919 –13 February2006) was anEnglishphilosopher. He was theWaynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at theUniversity of Oxford (Magdalen College) from 1968 to 1987. Before that he was appointed as a college lecturer atUniversity College, Oxford in 1947 and became a tutorial fellow the following year until 1968. On his retirement in 1987, he returned to the college and continued working there until shortly before his death.
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1 Life and work2 Partial bibliography2.1 Books2.2 Articles
3 References4 External links
[edit] Life and work
Born inEaling, WestLondon, Peter Strawson was brought up inFinchley, North London, by his parents, both of whom were teachers. He was educated at Christ‘s College, Finchley, followed bySt John‘s College, Oxford, where he readPhilosophy, Politics, and Economics.
Strawson first became well known with his article "On Referring" (1950), a criticism ofBertrand Russell‘sTheory of Descriptions (see alsoDefinite descriptions). He was largely responsible for establishingmetaphysics as a worthwhile direction inanalytic philosophy.
In philosophical methodology, there are (at least) two important and interrelated features of Strawson‘s work that are worthy of note. The first is the project of adescriptive metaphysics, and the second is his notion of a shared conceptual scheme, composed of concepts operated willy nilly in everyday life (but, obviously, without the philosopher‘s reflective awareness). In is book Individuals, Strawson attempts to give a description of various concepts that form an interconnected web, representing (part of) of our common, shared, human conceptual scheme. In particular, he examines our conceptions of basic particulars, and how they are variously brought under general spatio-temporal concepts. What makes this a metaphysical project is that it exhibits, in fine detail, the structural features of our thought about the world, and thus precisely delimits how we, humans, think about reality.
Peter Strawson was made a Fellow of theBritish Academy in 1960, and Foreign Honorary Member of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1971. He was president of theAristotelian Society from 1969 to 1970. He wasknighted in 1977, for services to philosophy.
His son,Galen Strawson, is also a philosopher.
Strawson died in hospital on13 February2006 after a short illness.
[edit] Partial bibliography
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Introduction to Logical Theory. London:Methuen, 1952. Individuals: An Essay in Descriptive Metaphysics. London: Methuen, 1959.The Bounds of Sense: An Essay on Kant‘s Critique of Pure Reason. London: Methuen, 1966. Logico-Linguistic Papers. London: Methuen, 1971 Freedom and Resentment and other Essays. London: Methuen, 1974 Subject and Predicate in Logic and Grammar. London: Methuen, 1974 Skepticism and Naturalism: Some Varieties. New York: Columbia University Press, 1985. Analysis and Metaphysics: An Introduction to Philosophy. Oxford:Oxford University Press, 1992. Entity and Identity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.
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"Truth" (Analysis, 1949) "Truth" (Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society suppl. vol. xxiv, 1950) "On Referring" (Mind, 1950) "In Defence of a Dogma" withH. P. Grice (Philosophical Review, 1956) "Logical Subjects and Physical Objects" (Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 1957) "Singular Terms and Predication" (Journal of Philosophy, 1961) "Universals" (Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 1979)
[edit] References
The Philosophy of P. F. Strawson, Louis Hahn, ed. (Open Court, 1998) Theories of Truth, Richard Kirkham (MIT Press, 1992). (Chapter 10 contains a detailed discussion of Strawson‘s performative theory of truth.) Sir Peter Strawson (1919–2006), Univ Newsletter, Issue 23, page 4, Hilary 2006.
[edit] External links
Freedom and resentment. Full text of his 1962 article.Obituary —The TimesObituary —The GuardianPeter F. Strawson: Analysis and Metaphysics. Roundtable on Strawson in Lima, Peru
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