Entity and identity : and other essays / P.F. Strawson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Strawson, P. F., auhtor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy.

Language and languages--Philosophy.

Language and languages.

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.

Kant, Immanuel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 284 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This work gathers selected essays by the author in two areas of philosophy. The first 12 pieces concern the philosophy of language, and the volume is completed by four studies in Kantian metaphysics.

Contents:

1. Entity and Identity

2. Universals

3. Positions for Quantifiers

4. Concepts and Properties

5. Direct Singular Reference: Intended Reference and Actual Reference

6. Belief, Reference, and Quantification

7. Reference and Its Roots

8. Logical Form and Logical Constants

9. 'If' and u

10. May Bes and Might have Beens

11. Austin and 'Locutionary Meaning'?

12. Meaning and Context

13. Kant's New Foundations of Metaphysics

14. The Problem of Realism and the A Priori

15. Kant's Paralogisms: Self-Consciousness and the 'Outside Observer'

16. Kant on Substance.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-282) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-159847-X

1-282-00683-5

9786612006838

0-19-151908-1

OCLC:

922954453