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Philosophical writings / P.F. Strawson ; edited by Galen Strawson and Michelle Montague.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Strawson, P. F., Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Strawson, P. F.
- Philosophy, Modern.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 258 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume presents 22 uncollected philosophical essays by Sir Peter Strawson, one of the leading philosophers of the second half of the 20th century. The essays are drawn from seven decades of work, and span all the central areas of philosophy along with metaphilosophical reflections and intellectual autobiography.
- Contents:
- Ethical intuitionism
- In defence of a dogma (with H.P. Grice)
- Construction and analysis
- Proper names
- 'The post-linguistic thaw'
- Analysis, science, and metaphysics
- Bennett on Kant's analytic
- Does knowledge have foundations?
- Knowledge and truth
- Scruton and Wright on anti-realism
- Perception and its objects
- Liberty and Necessity
- Sensibility, understanding, and the doctrine of synthesis
- Two conceptions of philosophy
- Review of Paul Grice, Studies in the Way of Words
- Knowing from words
- What have we learned from philosophy in the twentieth century?
- A category of particulars
- Paul Grice
- Why philosophy?
- Intellectual autobiography
- A bit of intellectual autobiography.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version
- ISBN:
- 0-19-172874-8
- 0-19-958729-9
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