The Philosophy of P. F. Strawson: The Library of Living Philosophers Volume XXVI

by Peter Frederick Strawson

Book Overview

Born in 1919, Strawson was a leading proponent of ordinary language philosophy. He is the author of the early and extremely influential paper On Referring in which he criticized Russell's theory of definite descriptions. His most influential book, Individuals, helped to raise the status of metaphysics as a philosophical enterprise. Themes first addressed in this book continued to be of concern to him in his later work, including the possibility of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812693779
• ISBN13: 9780812693775
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Open Court
• Length: 428 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.0" x 9.1"