Studies in the Philosophy of Thought and Action (Oxf. Pbs.)

Politics & Social Sciences

Strawson, P.F.

Philosophy

Oxford University Press

P. F. Strawson here presents a selection of his shorter writings from the 1970s to the 1990s in the two areas of philosophy to which he has contributed most notably: philosophy of language and Kantian studies. One of these essays is published here for the first time, and one for the first time in English; several others have been difficult to find. A new introduction offers an overview of the essays, their topics, and their interrelations. This book represents some of the most fascinating work of one of the foremost philosophers of the late twentieth century.

Entity and Identity: And Other Essays

P. F. Strawson here presents a selection of his shorter writings from the 1970s to the 1990s in the two areas of philosophy to which he has contributed most notably: philosophy of language and Kantian studies. A new introduction offers an overview of the essays, their topics, and their interrelations. This collection represents some of the most fascinating work of one of the foremost philosophers of the late twentieth century.

Clarendon Press

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 practice 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 on the part of the reader, sets out to explain and illustrate a certain conception of the nature of analytical philosophy. Professor Strewson draws on his many years of teaching at Oxford University, during which he refined and developed what he regards as the most productive route to understanding the fundamental structure of human thinking. Among the distinctive features of his exposition are the displacement of an older reductive conception of philosophical method (the ideal of "analyzing" complex ideas into simpler elements) in favour of elucidating the inter-connections between the complex but irreducible notions which form the basic structure of our thinking; and the demonstration that the three traditionally distinguished departments of metaphysics (ontology), epistemology, and logic are but three aspects of one unified enquiry.

Analysis and Metaphysics: An Introduction to Philosophy

Science & Math

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 on the part of the reader, sets out to explain and illustrate a certain conception of the nature of analytical philosophy. Strawson draws on his many years of teaching at Oxford University, during which he refined and developed what he regards as the most productive route to understanding the fundamental structure of human thinking. Among the distinctive features of his exposition are the displacement of an older, reductive conception of philosophical method (the ideal of "analyzing" complex ideas into simpler elements) in favor of elucidating the interconnections between the complex but irreducible notions which form the basic structure of our thinking; and the demonstration that the three traditionally distinguished departments of metaphysics (ontology), epistemology, and logic are but three aspects of one unified enquiry. Strawson has produced an elegant work that will be invaluable to students and stimulating for professional philosophers and general readers alike.

Lectures on Ethics, 1946

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Dancy, Jonathan

Crafts & Hobbies

Lectures On Ethics, 1946

Oxford : Oxford University Press

Skepticism and Naturalism: Some Varieties (Woodbridge Lectures)

Columbia Univ. Pr.

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Columbia University Press

Since its publication in 1959, Individuals has become a modern philosophical classic. Bold in scope and ambition, it continues to influence debates in metaphysics, philosophy of logic and language, and epistemology. Peter Strawson's most famous work, it sets out to describe nothing less than the basic subject matter of our thought. It contains Strawson's now famous argument for descriptive metaphysics and his repudiation of revisionary metaphysics, in which reality is something beyond the world of appearances. Throughout, Individuals advances some highly influential and controversial ideas, such as 'non-solipsistic consciousness' and the concept of a person a 'primitive concept'

Individuals: An Essay in Descriptive Metaphysics (University Paperbacks; Up)

Routledge

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Studies in the Philosophy of Thought and Action (Oxf. Pbs.)

Entity and Identity: And Other Essays

Entity and Identity: And Other Essays

Analysis and Metaphysics: An Introduction to Philosophy

Analysis and Metaphysics: An Introduction to Philosophy

Lectures on Ethics, 1946

Lectures On Ethics, 1946

Skepticism and Naturalism: Some Varieties (Woodbridge Lectures)

Skepticism and Naturalism: Some Varieties (Woodbridge Lectures)

Individuals: An Essay in Descriptive Metaphysics (University Paperbacks; Up)