Analysis and Metaphysics: An Introduction to Philosophy

by Peter Frederick Strawson

Book Overview

All developed human beings possess a practical mastery of a vast range of concepts, including such basic structural notions as those of identity, truth, existence, material objects, mental states, space, and time; but a practical mastery does not entail theoretical understanding. It is that understanding which philosophy seeks to achieve. In this book, one of the most distinguished of living philosophers, assuming no previous knowledge of the subject...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198751184
• ISBN13: 9780198751182
• Release Date: June 1992
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"