The Philosophy of P. F. Strawson: The Library of Living Philosophers Volume XXVI
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The twenty-sixth volume in the highly acclaimed Library of Living Philosophers series is devoted to the work of British philosopher of logic and metaphysician P. F. Strawson. Following the Library of Living Philosophers series format the volume contains an intellectual autobiography twenty critical and descriptive essays by leading philosophers from around the world Strawsons replies to the essays and a bibliography of Strawsons works. 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 Russells 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 objective knowledge the subject-predicate distinction the ontological status of persons and the problem of individuation. Contributors to the book include: Ruth Garrett Millikan Susan Haack E. M. Adams Panayot Butchvarov Richard Behling John McDowell Simon Blackburn Tadeusz Szubka David Frederick Haight Joseph S. Wu Andrew G. Black David Pears Robert Boyd Hilary Putnam Paul F. Snowdon Arindam Chakrabarti Wenceslao J. Gonzalez Ernest Sosa Chung-M. Tse John R. Searle P. F. Strawson.
